Meeting Minutes 10/4/04
Introductions
Co-Presidents - Ingrid Williams, ingridwi@scils.rutgers.edu
Co-Presidents - Bill Walker, willisw@eden.rutgers.edu
Treasurer - Meghan Vacca, megvacca@eden.rutgers.edu
Secretary - Soo Lee, leesoo@eden.rutgers.edu
Webmaster - (in absentia) Torey King, toreyk@eden.rutgers.edu
8 members attended SOURCE's second meeting of the semester in the SCILS Faculty
Lounge. On the evening's agenda were the following:
Possible Field Trips/Tours:
The Grolier Club, New York City. Fernando Pena, librarian at the Grolier Club, has been
contacted and has agreed to lead a tour. He is open to a tour in November or early spring
but has asked for preferred dates in November. Wednesdays and Saturdays have been
suggested and agreed upon. Further details will be announced via e-mail and at next
meeting.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City. One of the curators
has been contacted and has agreed to lead a tour but would like to know if we would like
to tour the whole library or parts of it. To get the most out of our tour experience it was
agreed it would be better to tour just the Rare Books and Digital Collections. Again this
tour would either be on Wednesdays or Saturdays of November. Further details will be
announced via e-mail and at next meeting.
The trip to see the map collections held in the New York library has been decided to be
taken in the spring. Details will be announced later in the semester.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Last year Laura Ruttum, a former
member of SOURCE, has generously offered to lead a tour for future SOURCE
members. She has been contacted but has yet to reply.
Special Collections/Archives, Alexander Library. Some people have previously been to
the New Jersey Room, while taking Tom's Manuscripts and Archives course. In order to
have a more comprehensive tour of SPCOL/UA, it was decided to hold off touring this
facility until the spring semester.
Upcoming Events:
Hand-made book workshop:
Location: SCILS faculty lounge (undecided)
Date: sometime during the Spring Semester, Saturday a.m.
Duration: ~ 2 hours
Description: Kristen St. John and Ian Bogus have previously piloted a bookmaking
workshop. Ian lead the last workshop, giving a talk/demo about binding stitches,
endpapers, then headed the hands-on workshop with great success. Discussion is in the
works about talking to Tim Corlis/Ian about heading next upcoming workshop and
arranging the location and supplies. Workshop will likely take place next semester. No
fee. People will need to sign up ahead of time.
Archives and History Day:
Location: Monmouth County Library
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2004, from 9am to 3pm
Description: An email was sent out to
SCILS_PAPERPEOPLE@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU stating:
Sixty-seven organizations have reserved tables for the history expo at the ninth annual
Archives and History Day at the Monmouth County Library on Saturday, October 16,
2004, from 9am to 3pm. A list of the exhibitors is below. For a preliminary program,
please see the Monmouth County Archives web site at
http://www.visitmonmouth.com/archives A few tables are still available, open to not-forproft history-related organizations, archives, local history collections, government
agencies with history programs, and the like. The event is open to the public and free to
attend. Table space: $15, which includes two box lunches.
Meeting Times and Places: Future meetings have been decided to take place at 6 pm on
Mondays, hopefully in the SCILS faculty lounge, if not in the SCILS student lounge.
The next SOURCE meeting is scheduled for November 1st. Specifics will be sent via email.