2020/02/08 Minutes

Owned by Linda Isaac
Last updated: Feb 10, 2020

Susan:

  • Gratitude for the great department meeting yesterday with updates on the Year of Professional Engagement projects.
  • This was a big week on selecting furniture in the public areas of newly renovated space.  Also working on plans for the mezzanine with Lewis, Meg, and Michael. 
  • Construction work in Lamont map room scheduled for May to turn it into exhibition prep area. 
  • Carie and Ramon have been working on moving collections back to Houghton.
  • Next week is Naomi’s last week before maternity leave.  Personnel/HR issues can be brought to Susan. 
  • Working on paperwork for two Edison positions.
  • Project archivist job interviews next week.

Adrien:

  • Teaching workshop on new DACS principles at Tufts next week – about 30 people signed up.
  • Continuing to work on containers with LTS.
  • Betts accessioning; Melanie working on Ashbery.

Lewis:

  • Michael is settling in nicely.
  • Francis ramped up the book hospital work. 
  • Meg and Lewis are working on revised workflows w/Susan on how to handle certain types of payments.  Susan will run reports on oddities.
  • A lot of transfers coming in from Widener; will also be putting in a request to ReCAP.
    • Action item: Lewis will update Wiki on transfer notations in holdings and item records.

Dorothy:

  • Out next week – attending Lighting the Way at Stanford.  This is a forum on subjects related to better archival discovery system; live cast on some will be available.
  • Updated documentation for digital projects workflow – will open it back up and present it at next all-staff meeting.
    • Will be introducing another workflow for digitization for one-off type projects/objects.
      • Experimental
      • Consider conservation support

Linda:

  • HTC Thr – Christina will be changing GEN to F/P/PF in Alma where the oversize designation is at the end of call number (around 50 items); no labeling changes will be required since the physical labels don’t impact reshelving/retrieving (confirmed w/Ramon).
  • HTC Extra-illustrated volumes project completed; just a few minor follow-ups required.
  • Modern - De Ridder Collection with separate printed materials
    • Action item: Susan, Adrien and Linda will meet to discuss best practices/workflow.