Preservation Section Meeting

Preservation Section Business Meeting
Friday, August 29, 2008; noon-3:00 p.m.

(Note: the 2:00 - 3:00 hour is not listed in the SAA Program Schedule. This hour is devoted to committee meetings.)

Meeting Kickoff (noon-12:10 p.m)

Welcome from Chair – Brenda Gunn

Welcome from SAA Council Liaison – Nancy Zimmelman Lenoil

Promotion of SAA Annual Meeting for 2009 - Representatives of the 2009 Program and Host Committees

Reports (12:10 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

Chair, Brenda Gunn

Vice Chair, Elizabeth Slomba

Committee Reports

Announcements and Updates (12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)

NEH, IMLS, and NHPRC

Preservation Publications - SAA Publications Editor, Peter Wosh

Program – The Drive to Digitize (1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

Kathleen Williams, NHPRC

Kaye Lanning Minchew, Troup County Archives, Georgia

Thomas F.R. Clareson, Palinet

Joel Wurl, NEH

Susan Malbin, IMLS

Discussion, Panelists and Section Membership (Submit a discussion question below the speaker bios)

Wrap up and Transition to Committee meetings (2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Program details

The Drive to Digitize is this year's meeting topic. Presenters will discuss digitization's impact on preservation programs and on preservation funding. The presenters will explore managing the resources for these two programs and will address the conflicts and advantages that occur.

Panelists

Kathleen M. Williams is the Executive Director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the grant-making arm of the National Archives. She serves as spokesperson for the NHPRC with members of Congress, the White House and others, articulating the Commission’s mission and vision. Kathleen is also an active participant in the Federal grants community serving on various bodies that plan for and implement federal grant policies, procedures, and standards. Kathleen has been with NARA since 2004, first joining the staff as the NHPRC’s Deputy Executive Director. Before joining the National Archives, she spent twenty years as an archivist in Federal and non-profit settings. She served for ten years at the Smithsonian Institution as a member of the senior staff of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, including service as its Archives Division Director. Her career has included ten years as archivist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she began the archives program with a three-year NHPRC grant. While in Houston, Kathleen also served as an adjunct instructor in the History Department at the University of Houston. Her career in archives began in 1982, serving for two years as assistant archivist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross. She studies archives and history as a graduate student in the HILS program at the University of Maryland. Kathleen received her master’s degree in arts and cultural administration from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Kaye Lanning Minchew is the Executive Director of Troup County Archives (Georgia), a position she’s held since February 1985. She previously worked in Emory University's Special Collections as a grant archivist and at the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a graduate assistant. Kaye holds a Bachelor of Arts (in History) from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and Master of Arts (in history) and Master of Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2007, Kaye received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Historical Society. She is a member of the Board of Directors, National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators. Additionaly, she has served as a Regent for the Academy of Certified Archivist and has held numerous committee positions in that organization. Kaye is a former president of the Society of Georgia ArchivistsRotary Club of LaGrange, 2002-2003. Thomas F.R. Clareson joined PALINET as Program Director for New Initiatives in October 2005. Leading PALINET's digital collections creation and management services, preservation services, and consulting activities, he is responsible for establishing new services and funding sources, grantwriting, and outreach to the museum and historical society communities. With over 15 years experience in preservation and digitization services, Tom was previously Global Product Manager at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; he also served in various capacities at Amigos Library Services, Inc. Tom holds an MLS from Kent State University, an MA from Ohio State University, and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. Currently a representative from the Society of American Archivists to the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums, he also serves on the Board of Trustees of Heritage Preservation.

Joel Wurl is a Sr. Program Officer in the Division of Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, where he also serves on the inter-divisional working group for the Office of Digital Humanities. He is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Applied History program at George Mason University. Prior to joining NEH in 2006, he worked for 20 years with University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center ending there as Head of Research Collections and Associate Director. From 2002 to 2005, he served on the council and executive committee of SAA and as editor of the Midwest Archives Conference journal "Archival Issues." With Sheryl Vogt, he is co-chair of the program committee for this year's SAA annual meeting. Wurl’s publications have appeared in both archival and immigration/ethnic history journals, and he is general editor for “North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories,” an online publication of Alexander St. Press. Wurl was named SAA Fellow in 2007.

Susan Malbin has been a Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Office of Library Services for five and a half years. Her discretionary grants portfolio includes the National Leadership Grant category of 'Library Museum Collaboration', the former NLG categories of 'Advancing Learning Communities,' 'Continuing Education' (now in Librarians for the 21st Century), and 'Partnership for a Nation of Learners' initiative with CPB. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative History and an MLS with a concentration in Archival Studies. She has managed Special Collections in Public Library settings (e.g. DCPL- Washingtoniana; Voorheesville-NY) containing fragile and historic papers and photos in need of conservation and preservation; surveyed local documentary heritage holdings for Documentary Heritage Program in NY State; and served on national library and archival association committees.

Discussion Questions

The panelists' comments will be no more than 5 minutes so as to allow for an open discuss with section members. Discussion questions can be submitted in advance by sending them to section chair Brenda Gunn, bgunn@austin.utexas.edu, or by loging in to this wiki and submitting your questions below:

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