2016-08-18 Meeting notes

2016-08-18 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 18, 2016

Attendees

  • @Jennifer R Hecker

  • @Daniela O Lozano

  • @Stulgaityte, Evelina

Notetaker

  • @Jennifer R Hecker

Agenda

  • Round robin - new collections, staffing changes, new projects or ideas, updates, questions

  • Special Collections newsletter update

  • Society of American Archivists post-conference wrap-up

    • How'd it go? What did you learn? Who did you meet?

    • What sessions/workshops/roundtables/sections/meet-ups were great?

    • Didn't go? What questions do you have for folks who did?

Discussion items

Time

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Who

Notes

Time

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Who

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10 min

Round robin

Daniela Lozano (HRC)

  • mater building planning meeting w/ architects (pending approval & funding: want more classrooms, new DH lab, be more welcoming, more gathering spaces, organize collections by type, deaccessions, LSF, compact shelving, elevator reform)

  • some staff reorganization happening

    • Mielke will be HRC archivist & maybe still head of archives cataloging, but Mary Alice & Jackie will report elsewhere.

    • hiring new rare books curator, HR person, receptionist/readingroom assistant, art/photography cataloger (LAII), art curator (Mears) is retiring, Pat Fox (reading room) retiring.

    • Daniela is still working on Ian Sinclair. Lots of new projects starting up soon.

    • Kait Dorsky did ally trianing through the diversity center, may arrange training at HRC.

10 min

Round robin

Evelina Stulgaityte (Tarlton)

  • Law School renovation almost complete, was affecting library access, they lost some space, but got new circ desk, area looks nicer.

  • Just finished processing huge, on-deposit Uniform Law Commission collection, will be digitizing whole thing (for access, so PDFs not TIFFs), work-studies start Sept 1st.

  • Evelina processing Dean Keaton papers.

  • Finished EB Pickett papers (mid-century lawyer, UT alum), scanned 1 year of correspondence & put it in ContentDM.

  • Kate (archives assistant) going full time next week, but 1/2 in archives 1/2 in rare books, reprocessing Helen Hargrave (former law librarian) collection.

10 min

Round robin

Jennifer Hecker (UT Libraries)

  • UTL reorg update

  • no one took notes

45 min

SAA post-conf wrap-up

Jennifer Hecker (UT Libraries)

  • no notes

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