17 February 2006 MEETING REPORT

Meeting opened at 12:10 pm

In attendance:
Sarah Quigley
Lisa Schmidt
Hope Rider
Sidney Tibbetts
Gabby Redwine
Angelica Delgado
Javier Garza
Laurie Thompson
Jennifer Lindley
Ed Sevcik
David Gracy
Clifford Allen

Topic: Spring Activities
1. Organization of Information Curriculum Forum Date Change

Since three of the iSchool's prospective hires have an archives focus, the Org. Forum meeting has been postponed until the end of March so that the archives experience of the new hire(s) can be taken into account when making curriculum decisions.

The iSchool will be offering one core Org. course for everyone (rather than the current multiple options), so the information formerly taught in Organizing Records Information needs to be incorporated into another course. One option might be to incorporate that course with elements from the Introduction to Archival Enterprise, Intro. to Electronic Records Management, and other courses. The Forum meeting will be a chance for people to discuss/reasses the possibilities for reconfiguring the curriculum to incorporate elements from all of these courses and will provide an opportunity for students and faculty to offer their input.

2. Internship Talk

One possible SAA activity might be to invite an alumnus/a who has done an internship to come back to current students about his or her experience. It was proposed that we try to invite someone to come speak in March.

Jen suggested that it might be more effective to combine this event with an information session about internships.

Dr. Gracy recommended that someone send a message to the listserv to gauge interest, given where we are in the semester.

Hope suggested that we could do it in November of next year (i.e., well before internship applications are due).

Sidney raised the possibility of merging an internship information session with a Capstone experiences panel.

The group decided to put off the event until next fall and also think about collaborating with Career Services.

3. Tours

The SAA has been invited to visit the SBC and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) archives and has also requested to visit the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Catholic Church archives in town.

Sarah suggested that we do two archives visits in the fall and two in the spring.

Sidney mentioned the School for the Blind as an additional possibility for an archives tour. Apparently the SLA is arranging a visit with them and the School might also be interested in having people come in and do Capstones.

It was suggested that transportation and/or time issues might limit the attendance at non-local archives visits during the school- and work-week. Scheduling visits at the local archives during Archives Week was suggested.

Javier mentioned that the UTSA archives was originally founded as an archives of women and gender, which would tie in nicely with the proposed theme of this year's Archives Week.

One possibility might be to do the UTSA tour a couple of weeks before or after Archives Week.

Ed added that we could take some other activity out of the Archives Week schedule and do the UTSA tour instead.

The group discussed whether it would be preferable to tour only one religious archives or both.

Hope suggested that we could schedule one of the San Antonio tours for over the summer.

Dr. Gracy added that a Bastille Day picnic over the summer might be fun. He also suggested that it might be of value to bring in the two archivists from the Catholic and Presbyterian archives, plus Mark Duffy (Head of the Episcopal archives and also in the SAA council), to have a discussion, and then visit the two religious archives.

Sarah proposed that we focus on this event for April. We could do one religious archives visit during the first week of April, tour SBC in the summer, and visit UTSA at the beginning of October (before Archives Week).

Topic: Archives Week 2006
Date

Sarah spoke with the Austin History Center about potential dates for the Archives Clinic. (The Clinic typically happens on the last day of Archives Week.) The dates are:

Sarah is leaning toward scheduling the event for the earlier date to avoid the conflict with Halloween. The group discussed potential conflicts (e.g., football games, etc.).

Events

Some ideas:

-an Archives Week tailgate
-a panel discussion one of the nights
-recreate Archives War
-make either the keynote speech of the panel interactive
-involve the historic re-creation community (gender tie-in: recently more women have been participating in historic reenactments, researching women who weren't represented, etc.)
-ask the State Archives to put together a talk as a part of a panel on materials they have that could be used -have Dr. Gracy's traditional lecture

Funding

Discussion about funding will be postponed until the next meeting.

There will be no meeting next week. The next meeting will be two weeks from today, from 12-1 on March 3, 2006. In the meantime, think about specific topics, events, and possible titles/slogans for Archives Week.

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