PLA Board of Directors
Fall 2013
2014.21
TO:
PLA Board of Directors
RE:
Request from the Society of American Archivists’ Public Library Archives/Special
Collections Roundtable for co‐sponsorship of the Roundtable and for a PLA Representative
ACTION REQUESTED/INFORMATION/REPORT: Action Requested
ACTION REQUESTED BY:
Barbara Macikas, Executive Director
DRAFT OF MOTION:
The Society of American Archivists’ Public Library Archives/Special Collections Roundtable will be
co‐sponsored by PLA. PLA will reserve meeting space at ALA Annual Conference for the collaborative
meetings at ALA Annual Conference for as long as the co-sponsorship agreement is in effect.
A PLA Representative will be appointed by the PLA Presidents to the Society of American Archivists’
Public Library Archives/Special Collections Roundtable for 1 year terms for as long as the co-sponsorship
agreement is in effect.
For ALA Annual Conference 2014, an announcement regarding the meeting in the 2014 Las Vegas
conference program and PLA website will be provided.
DATE: August 29, 2013
BACKGROUND:
The Public Library Archives/Special Collections (PLASC) Roundtable was established by the Society of
American Archivists on February 2, 2010. The Roundtable serves to encourage advocacy for and
education about archival, manuscript, local history, genealogy, and other historic and special collections
within public libraries of all sizes. The Roundtable also provides an arena for discussion and
dissemination of best practices of the archives, library, museum, and history fields. It works to support
the informational, historical, and cultural interests that converge in public library archives and special
collections. There are currently more than 800 members of the roundtable.
The Chair of PLASC is Anke Voss, Director of the Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana
Free Library (Urbana, IL) and Lecturer for the GLIS program at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Email: avoss@tufl.info Phone: 217/531-7040.
The Vice Chair is Leslie Waggener, Associate Archivist, American Heritage Center University of Wyoming.
Email: lwaggen2@uwyo.edu Phone: 307/766-2557.
The PLASC Roundtable would like to request that the Public Library Association consider co-sponsorship
of the Roundtable. We also request that PLA name a representative to PLASC. We feel a collaboration
of this type will benefit both PLA and SAA in that PLASC serves members across the library and the
archival professions.
Anke and Leslie welcome your questions about the work of the Roundtable. We thank you for your
consideration of these requests.
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