ALA-SAA Joint Committee on Library-Archives
Relationships
ALA 2002 Midwinter Conference
New Orleans, LA
NOTES
ALA-SAA Joint Committee Meeting
20 January 2002
Attendance: Charlotte Brown (SAA co-chair), Rachel Galan (ALA), Kris Kiesling
(ALA), Susan Malbin (ALA), Karen Muller (ALA Liaison), Joyce Ray (ALA),
Katie Salzmann (SAA), Rutherford Whittus (SAA),
Guests:
1.
Susan Koutsky, Carla Rickerson, Gerri Schaad, Jennifer Schaffner
Introduction of members and visitors
2. The ALA co-chair of the Joint Committee has yet to be appointed. Charlotte
Brown (SAA co-chair) agreed to chair the meeting.
3. Roster of Jt. Committee members was routed for revisions/updates.
[updated roster attached]
4.
Appointment of ALA co-chair
Brown will email Jt. Committee members and friends to solicit nominations for
ALA co-chair. Brown will forward nominations to the ALA President (cc: Karen
Muller, ALA liaison) for appointment.
5.
Expansion of Jt. Committee membership (Old Business)
Joyce Ray re-distributed her proposed revision of the Jt. Committee's mission
statement to include museum professionals. According to Ray, Bob Martin/IMLS is
supportive of this action. The committee agreed to consult with the SAA Museum
Archives section in order to obtain their input on this topic. Ray offered to
contact the Association of American Museums (AAM) as a follow-up to Kiesling's
recent letter to the AAM.
6.
2002
2003
Jt. Committee program proposals
ALA: Atlanta, GA
Primary sources in Teaching
SAA: Birmingham, AL
Primary sources in Teaching
ALA: Toronto, Canada
proposal due to ALA ca. July 2002
SAA: Los Angeles, CA
proposal due to SAA Oct. 2002
ACRL: Charlotte, NC - as per request from Elaine
Smyth/RBMS to co-sponsor program proposal
Suggested topics (in order of preference):
A. Personally Identifiable Information (PII), circulation records/reading
room logs: research value, privacy issues, security issues (theft),
records management requirements for destruction; Peter Graham/Syracuse
Univ. to moderate panel discussion
B. interoperability: S. Koutsky offered to coordinate development of
program; possible co-sponsors: LITA/Technical Issues for Digital
Libraries, SAA, PARS; use case study approach, e.g. bib record linked to
finding aids linked to content, etc.
C. collaboration between archives, libraries, museums: past and current
practices; Bob Martin chair panel dicussion
D. authority work/thesauri construction: required by finding aids,
libraries, museums; co-sponsored by ALCTS, SAA, AAM, RBMS
It was suggested that the Jt. Committee maintain an ongoing list of session
proposal topics:
- Diversity with ALA & SAA
RBMS is concerned with lack of "people of color" within RBMS;
are there other ALA-SAA units experiencing the same concern?
Charlotte B. Brown, SAA co-chair
University Archivist
UCLA University Archives
330 Powell Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
phone:
fax:
email:
310/825-7265
310/794-7097
cbbrown@library.ucla.edu
5 June 2002/cbbrown
ALA-SAA Joint Committee on Library-Archives Relationships
Committee Roster
(February 2002)
Arnold, George
American University
Washington, D.C.
SAA member (2000-2002)
garnold@american.edu
Brown, Charlotte B.
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
SAA co-chair (2000-2002)
cbbrown@library.ucla.edu
Galan, Rachel B.
Stephen F. Austin State Univ.
Nacogdoches, TX
ALA Intern (2000-2002)
rgalan@sfalib.sfasu.edu
Janick, Stephen
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
SAA member (2001-2003)
janick@drexel.edu
Kerschner, Joan K.
Henderson District Public Libraries
Henderson, NV
ALA member (2000-2002)
jgkerschner@hdpl.org
Kiesling, Kris
Harry Ransom Research Cntr.
Austin, TX
ALA member (June 2002)
kiesling@mail.utexas.edu
Malbin, Susan
Washintoniana – District of Columbia
Public Library
Washington, D.C.
ALA member (2001-2003)
susan.malbin@dc.gov
Ray, Joyce M.
Inst. of Museum & Library Services
Washington, DC
ALA member (2000-2002)
jray@imls.gov
Salzmann, Katie
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
SAA member (2001-2003)
ksalzman@lib.siu.edu
Wallace, Shirley J.
ALA intern (2001-2003)
Windham-Shaw, Diane
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
SAA member (2000-2002)
shawd@mail.lafayette.edu
Witthus, Rutherford
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
SAA member (2001-2003)
rutherford.witthus@uconn.edu
Karen Muller
ALA staff liaison
kmuller@ala.org
[still figuring this one out!]
SAA Council liaison
11 Feb 2002/cbbrown