Below are the minutes from our Roundtable Meeting at SAA in Washington, DC.
Women’s Collections Roundtable Annual Meeting
August 11, 2010, Washington, DC
Meeting Minutes
Co-chairs: Danelle Moon and Kelly Wooten
Wonderful presentations by:
- Allida Black, Research Professor of History and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, will speak about her work as the project director of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
- Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president, Alexander Street Press, will highlight the press's women's history databases
WCRT website/Blog:
Our updated website is moving over to the drupal format
Discussion of blog found at:
We encourage anyone with updates, announcements, new digital collections, anything related to women's collections to send us their information to share on the blog.
WCRT Membership:
Discussion of increased participation was on the agenda. Due to the number of members (377) and high participation at this mtg it was decided we didn't need to discuss this at this time.
Reminder that members need to opt in to the roundtable listserve
News from the Archives for Women and Social Movements database/journal
Please send any updates/announcements to Tanya Belcher-Zanish at tzanish [at] iastate [dot] edu
Women’s archives reader
draft articles coming in now, moving forward
Panels/speaker ideas for Chicago 2011 mtg:
MPLP primarily with regard to women’s collections
· Membership lists in women’s organizations
Outreach using social media to nontraditional women’s groups/activists as researchers
· Actively communicating with other groups
Uncovering hidden collection
Combining outreach with budget constraints
Continuing to serve women’s collections and user populations
Blasting stereotypes of women through women’s collections
· how you go about doing this and promoting the materials
· Promoting women’s influence on pop culture
· Girls band from 80s
· Zines as archival collections
Catholic women, nuns, getting materials out to the public
Designing programming.
- Designed for younger groups
Jane Addams, Chicago Hull House as potential ideas for Roundtable program
- Outreach, organization for children
- Social services, health issues
- Pursue this for either a topic or our roundtable mtg
- Or arts/crafts period from mid-western schools
Elections:
Next year we will move to online elections as other sections/roundtables did this year.
Meghan Lyon and Cassie Schmitt, co-vice chairs are the next years co-chairs.
Elections for vice chair, nominations from the floor, voting, both approved
Welcome Kathy Hertel-Baker and Virginia Corvid as the new co-vice chairs!
Program Committee report:
Everything fits the theme!
See announcement: here
Council Report:
Donna McCrea reports on council's mtg included proposed dues increase and financial status of SAA.
Diversity Committee:
Kelly Wooten is the representative for "women" including the memberships of both the Women's Collections Roundtable and the Women's Archivists Roundtable. Kelly reports as posted on blog: SAA's Diversity Committee Report
Attendance
Jonathan Ponder, JSTOR | Alison Gaim, NARA |
Erin Townsend, NARA | Virginia Corvid, WHS/UW-Madison |
Susan Woodland, Hadassah Archives | Lora Davis, University of Delaware |
Rebecca Johsnon Melvin, University of Delaware | Taronda Spencer, Spelman College |
Andrea Sheehan, QVC, Inc. | Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa State University |
Kathy Hertel-Baker, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth | Colleen Mahoney, Simmons |
Lori Satter, Simmons | Janice E. Ruth, Library of Congress Manuscript Division |
Lisa Mangiatico, Soroptimist International of the Americas | Brenda Correia, |
Lucinda Manminz | Mary Samouelian, Duke University |
Kim Sims, Duke University | Sherrie Bowser, Virginia Tech |
Jessica Sedgwick, Harvard Medical School | Cat Holbrook, Schlesinger Library |
Johanna Carll, Schlesinger Library | Elizabeth Norarra, University of Maryland |
Doris Malkmus, Penn State | Fernanda Peucne, Rutgers |
Meghan Lyon, Duke University | Cassie Schmitt, University of Oregon |
Kelly Wooten, Duke University | |
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