2022/01/07 Minutes

Owned by Linda Isaac
Last updated: Jan 07, 2022

Present: Adrien, Dorothy, Lewis, Linda (minutes), Susan


Susan:

  • Cancelled TS department meeting for Monday.
  • Houghton All-Staff Meeting on Jan. 27 will be TS focused:
    • Lewis will give presentation on Alma invoices & DIBAR code
    • Betts will give presentation on a few upcoming events: SNAC-athon using names from the Mrs. project, and RAD (Reparative Archival Description).
    • Monique will give Easii presentation/demo
  • Anne-Marie will be joining our next meeting.
    • Prepare 3-4 min overview of each section (in the order of Lewis, Linda, Adrien, and Dorothy).
  • Betts will be joining the managers meeting (as announced by Adrien in December - Betts will be managing project staff and future Creative Arts Archivist).
    • Susan will set up a new series of meetings twice a month. The minutes will be in Google doc and agenda will be created on a rotating basis.


Dorothy:

  • Mary will be in 4 hours each day. Dorothy will be in on Monday to pick up laptop. 
  • SAEF site went up yesterday; already received a good record correction from a professor on wrong inscription attribution; forwarded it to Jennifer to fix.
  • Planning a student-engagement event with Anne-Marie: A panel of student writers (early March).  It will probably be virtual to be safe and avoid making last-minute changes. 
  • Working on workflows for exhibit digitization (upcoming is John’s exhibit in May).
  • Had a meeting with Micah at Gutman and recommended that she reach out to Susan or Linda on some description issues.
  • Invited by Hayden at Carpenter Center to be part of Mahindra discussion session on Harry Smith exhibition.


Adrien:

  • Melanie and Vicki will be onsite next week. Adrien will be in on Monday.
  • Annalisa is making good progress entering Little Brown and published a good section already. Hopes to finish by end of the month and will move on to HTC files.


Lewis:

  • Invoices are coming in steadily; Meg has been working on setting up foreign vendors. There will be a fair amount of materials after next week from Meg to transfer to cataloging.
  • A lot of supplies will be coming in next week.


Linda:

  • Jennifer will be onsite four days a week (T-F).
  • Michael will be onsite M/W/F and is aware of who to approach to be the second verifier during the next two weeks.
  • Linda working on compiling analytics reports.