When: December 02, 2008, 5:40 p.m. to 5:55 p.m.
Where: Special Functions Room (MCB)
Attendees: SCoSAA officers; twenty-one other attendees
Recorded by: Abraham Miller
- Welcome
- Announcements
- ARMA Reports
- Last e-discovery meeting recreated trial with an actual judge
- December 11, 2008 lunch meeting on data destruction
- NEA / SCoSAA Job Shadow Program
- Program seeks to pair students with current professionals
- Eight professionals / institutions will host, with some including:
- Tufts Digital Collections
- Jewish Women’s Archive
- American Textile History Museum
- Visits can last a whole day or a half day
- Goal of the visit is to experience the profession outside “the bubble” of Simmons College, with a chance to network and “pick the brain” of another professional.
- NEA is excited about the program and would continue the pilot if successful
- SCoSAA intends to pair students and hosts by end of February, 2009
- NEA Membership
- Few GSLIS archives students are NEA members
- Cost is $30, with a potential $15 reimbursement through the LISSA professional development program
- NEA wants to reach out to more archives students
- Key is to gain publicity for SCoSAA and the NEA to show how students can benefit
- Potential Events for Next Semester; Brainstorming
- JFK Library
- Boston Public Library Open Archives Initiative
- Mount Auburn Cemetery Archives
- Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with Panopticon
- Mark Greene, SAA president emeritus, video conference
- Upcoming Events and Field Trips
- Panopticon Ethics Panel