Preservation Minutes

Preservation Committee Minutes

• 2011 Minutes (Philadelphia)

  Preservation Standing Committee
  2011 Annual Meeting Minutes
  July 26, 2011 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  1. Welcome & Introductions from the Chair Marilyn Estes.
  2. Sharon Bradley volunteered to take minutes.
  3. Subcommittee reports
     • Due to a lack of members there were no committee reports. All SIS members are encouraged to volunteer for these subcommittees. The work is never onerous and the work of all the subcommittees is helpful to the chair in getting things done.
  4. New Resources
     • Washington College of Law – Use of Digital Commons for faculty papers; found cache of historic graduation programs
     • Lurawave (http://www.luratech.com/products/imaging-solutions.html) image server from Luratech
     • Association of Moving Image Archivists (http://www.amianet.org/) as good resource for preserving videos
     • Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative (http://www.lyrasis.org/Products-and-Services/Digital-Services/Mass-Digitization-Collaborative.aspx) recommended for large projects
     • Rae Best, Librarian for the U.S. House of Representatives did a presentation on scanners that was recommended.
  5. Old Business
     • Web site will be migrating into AALLNet. Double check links, and save any documents.
  6. New Business
     • 2012 Annual Meeting Program Proposals
       There is a handout at the activities table with more information; the submission deadline is Sept. 15. The proposal site is up – http://proposals.aallnet.org/. Be sure to use “share” option on proposal form to get committee input or even the whole SIS.
     • Marilyn Estes passed the gavel to Sally Wambold
  7. New Chair’s Remarks
     • “PreservationUpdates” is a Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PreservationUpdates/)
     • Encouraged to write articles. It’s been years since an article from the committee appeared in AALL Spectrum but she also encouraged everyone to think about writing for the Spectrum Blog. This may be less intimidating as the articles are shorter, and can be more conversational in style.
     • Sally would like someone to take over the preservation column in Technical Services Law Librarian. The next column would not be until Feb. 2012 issue. Topics have included new products, and useful links. The columnist does not always have to write the column, but can invite guests and then coordinate the submission. [Editor’s note: the new preservation columnist has since been selected.]

  Submitted by Sharon Bradley, University of Georgia School of Law.