2015-02-18 ADWG Meeting notes

Reports: ADMS Proposal

Jessi

• 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

Amy/Carla

• 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

Speaker 2015

• 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)

Round Robins

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