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Records Management Roundtable Meeting
From SAAWiki-2008
1. Opening and Welcome
A. Introduction of officers and steering committee
B. Introduction of Bruce Ambacher, SAA Council liaison
2. Announcement of Agenda
3. Reports
A. Officers
1. Chair Russell James
2. Vice-chair Alison Stankrauff
a. SAA session proposals
b. ARMA session proposals
B. Steering Committee
1. Newsletter - Debra Kimok
a. Newsletter guidelines
b. Future newsletters
2. Website - Jennifer Young
C. Working Groups
1. Functions Thesaurus Working Group
2. SAA Section/Roundtable Records Retention Compliance Working Group
3. Records and Information Management Bibliography Working Group
4. AMRT/RMRT Joint Working Group on Diversity in the Profession
D. Ad Hoc Committees
1. Ad Hoc Committee on Distinguished Fellows Nominations
2. Ad Hoc Education Committee
3. Ad Hoc Committee on Green Archives book Proposal
4. Ad Hoc Committee on RMRT Annual Meeting Scholarships
D. Other Projects
1. Green Archives book project
2. "Records Management for Archivists" workshop
3. Phil Bantin's 90-minute webinar
4. Old Business
A. None
5. New Business
A. Elections
1. Chair - Russell D. James, CA
Russell is the current chair of the Records Management Roundtable and the
coordinator of its Functions Thesaurus Working Group. He is a certified
archivist who holds a Master of Arts in history from the University of West
Florida and a Master of Library and Information Science from Louisiana State
University. In 2008 he was recognized as one of six "Movers and Shakers in
Archives" by the ArchivesNext blog.
2.. Vice-chairs (2 positions) -
a. Debra Kimok, SUNY-Plattsburgh
Debra is senior assistant librarian and special collections librarian at the
Sate University of New York (SUNY) College at Plattsburgh. She received her
BA in history at SUNYC Plattsburgh in 1997 and her MLS at SUNY-Buffalo in 2000,
and is a graduate of the 2005 Modern Archives Institute in Washington DC. She
spends hafl her days as a lone arrangr working with regional historical materials
and the college archives, and the other half working on projects as part of the
library instruction unit teaching the Information and Technology Literacy course,
and serving at the Feinberg Library reference desk. She is a member of the
college's records management committee, the faculty Senate's Writing Across the
Curriculum committee, and the Information Technology Advisory Council. She is
also a member of the Kent Delord House Museum (a local historic site) board and
is the coordinator of the museum's collections committee.
3. Steering Committee
a. Alison Stankrauff - Indiana University South Bend
Alison Stankrauff is the Archivist and an Assistant Librarian at Indiana
University South Bend. She’s a lone arranger and teaches classes on campus – among several other hats… Alison has been at IU South Bend since 2004, and
previous to that, she was a Reference Archivist at the American Jewish Archives.
She has her Masters in Library and Information Science with Archival
Administration Specialization from Wayne State University in Detroit. She also
has a Bachelors in History from Antioch College in Ohio.
b. Jennifer Young, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
c. Greg Johnson - Morgan Street Document Systems
Greg is an archivist with Morgan Street Document Systems in Chicao. He has a
Bachelor of Arts in history from Purdue Knox College, a Master of Arts in modern
American and early European history from Purdue University, and an MLS from the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Greg previously served as the digital
initiatives archivist at the Ward M. Canady Center at the Universit of Toledo and
as an intern at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, & Marketing
at Duke University.
d. Melissa Gottwald, Embry-Riddle University
Melissa Gottwald will start work as an archivist at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Prescott, Arizona, on September 2. She previously held positions
at Iowa State University, New Mexico State University, and Oberlin College. She
is a member of the RMRT Working Group on Section/Roundtable Records Retention
Compliance. She has also been active in the Midwest Archives Conference, serving
as MAC Newsletter assistant editor for the “Regionalia” column, Iowa state chair
for the MAC President’s Award, and has served on program and local arrangements
committees for MAC meetings.
e. Michael Courtney, Japanese American Service Committee
f. Brad Houston, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
g. Kathryn Ann Scanlan, JD - MLIS student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn A. Scanlan is a graduate student at UW-Madison, specializing in
archives and records administration. She currently works as a records
management assistant for the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History
Survey.
h. Holly Geist, CA - Denver Water
Holly was born in raised in Colorado and received an MA in historty with
an archives and historic preservation concentration from Colorado State
University in 2000. She is the archivist for Denver Water. She previously
served as a reference archivist for the Wyoming State Archives.
i. Farris Wahbeh, The History Factory
j. James Cassedy, NARA
k. Emily Hughes Dominick, CA - Providence Archives
l. Laura Edgar, University of Notre Dame
Laura is currently working at the University Archives at the University of Notre
Dame in South Bend, Indiana where she holds the title of Archivist and Records
Manager. She has a BA in European History from Dickinson College in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania and an MA in Public History and the history of the American West
from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Laura is responsible
for the creation and implementation of Notre Dame's records management program
and is working toward her Certified Records Manager (CRM) designation. She
previously served as the Cultural Affairs Director for the Town of Windsor,
Colorado, as an intern at the Archives for the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives, and as a student employee at the Dickinson College Archives,
where she learned to love this profession.
m. Elizabeth Fairfax, CA - Island County [WA] Archives and Records Services
B. Future of the RMRT
1. Membership subcommittee
2. Education subcommittee
3. Website subcommittee
4. Improved relations between RMRT and other records management organizations
6. Program - George David-Shongo, Seneca Nation of Indians Archivist, will address how he's created records management practices that are responsive to and reflective to Seneca traditions and culture.
7. Other
8. Adjournment


