2015-02-18 ADWG Meeting notes

• We answered some questions came up with things for people to do in the Archival Description Management Proposal
  • Components of the Proposal
  • Costs
  • Interim Steps
  • Pilot project
  • Buy-in from other repositories on campus

• EAC-CPF Working Group
  • Interested but still unsure what the best focus for that group would be
  • Carla has the Harvard example
  • EAC-CPF website
  • Who on campus would actually be interested in participating
  • Might be a good idea to call Architecture and see if the

• EAC-CPF: 
  • Blog post author of the Museum of Natural Science (CLIR cataloging grant - Smithsonian blog)
  •  Ellen Doon from Harvard
• Get Donna to talk to us about TARO
• Some of the repositories that are currently ongoing migration to speak with us - Amanda Focke,
• Talk about path from EAD2 to EAD3 (Minnie - updated the thing)
• Records Management in Archives (Maryrose)

Paloma:

• Clements updates
  • separating campaign from gubernatorial
  • arrangement for the finding aid

Jessi:

• Working with PR at Briscoe to do a piece with Texas Monthly about the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing
• UT Archives - updating the list of collections that we have an updating finding aids for collections we have; hoping to the digitize some things and organize the website

Maryrose:

• Working on the document management system implementation
• Working on electronic records with the President's Office
• ASMP project http://www.utexas.edu/asmp - iSchool interns for decommissioning legacy software systems on campus

Carla:

• Exhibit opened WWII Posters from Sam Coranado - used the Boses Oral History Project
• Started a huge, new collection

Evelina:

• Digitizing a huge collection and some of the law school yearbooks
• Attended the panel at the law

Amy:

• Ben Bradley Papers - Editor and Chief at Washington Post during Watergate Scandal, Project Archivist position
• Audio Preservation Archivist (full time)
• Still hiring for the Digital Archivist position
• Would like to hire a Records Management as part of the strategic plan (full time - forthcoming)
• Space - moving all processing archivists on the same floor
• Alice and Wonderful exhibit is opened
• All day on Saturday starting in April
• Betsy/Head of Reference Services at HRC will be opening up in August or September when the current person retires (full time)
• Shared services has resulted in lost of some IT staff
• Library Assistant - Visual Materials/Public Services (full time)

Esther:

• Started on the Liz Smith Collection (over 100ft), checklisting - she was a gossip columnist and there are a lot of artifacts