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Women's Collections Roundtable Meeting Minutes
August 3, 2006 - Washington, D.C.
August 18, 2005 - New Orleans,
Louisiana
August 5, 2004 - Boston,
Massachusetts
August 22, 2003 - Los Angeles,
California
August 23, 2002 - Birmingham, Alabama
Meeting Minutes - August 3, 2006 - Washington, D.C.
Women’s Collection Roundtable Meeting
SAA Annual Conference
Washington, D.C.
August 3, 2006
4:30-6pm
Attendance:
Kate Colligan, Univ. of Pittsburgh and Ellen Swain, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (co-chairs); Jennifer King, Mount Holyoke; Arlene Schmuland, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage (program committee liaison); Heather C.D. Davis, Univ. of Washington; Paula Aloisio, Schlesinger Library; Johanna Carll, Schlesinger Library; Lucinda Manning, Greenwich CT Historical Society; Fernanda Perrone, Rutgers Univ.; Susan Woodland, Hadassah; Danelle Moon, San Jose State; Anke Voss, Urbana Free Library, IL; Sarah Keen, Cornell Univ.; Jennie Benford, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Amy Rudersdorf, North Carolina State Univ.; Jan Blodgett, Davidson College; Sarah Quigley, University of Texas Austin; Ellen Brown, Baylor Univ.; Tomaro Taylor, Univ. of South Florida Libraries; Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa State Univ.; Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Univ. of Delaware; Lisa Mangiafico, Soroptimist International of Americas; Wanda Finney, Wilson College; Alexandra Gressitt, Thomas Balch Library; Susan R. Watson, American Red Cross; Rosemary Cundiff, Utah State Archives; Renee Braden, National Geographic Society; Heidi Marshall, Columbia College Chicago; Peggy Glowacki, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago; Jodi Berkowitz, Duke Univ.; Kelly Wooten, Duke Univ.; Christie Lutz, Princeton Univ.; Susan Earle, Schlesinger Library; Curtis Lyons, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.; Andrea Sheehan, QVC; Kathy Jacob, Schlesinger Library; Janice Ruth, Library of Congress, and Doris Malkmus, Pennsylvania State Univ.
After a short presentation by the Program Committee liaison, Kate Colligan introduced the meeting program speaker, A’Lelia Bundles, who spoke on Research Adventures from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance. A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, currently is immersed in the 1920s and wakes up each morning to an office full of letters, newspaper clippings, audiotapes, books, photographs and memorabilia as she reconstructs the life of her great-grandmother for her new biography, JoyGoddess: The Fabulous A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. For A'Lelia Bundles, there is nothing quite like the rush of opening a Hollinger box and discovering a juicy historical tidbit or inhaling the faint smell of mildew in the pages of an old journal as she learns about four generations of the women in her family. She looks forward to sharing research adventures that have taken her from Howard's Moorland-Spingarn Collection and Yale's Beinecke Collection to the Library of Congress and and the living rooms of several octogenarians and nonagenarians.
After the fascinating presentation, Colligan announced that Anke Voss and Doris Malkmus are the new WCRT co-chairs and Amy Rudersdorf is the web liaison. Colligan and Swain thanked them for their willingness to take over the leadership of the group. The meeting was adjourned at 6pm.
Submitted September 15, 2006.
Meeting Minutes - August 18, 2005 - New
Orleans, Louisiana
Women's Collection Roundtable Meeting Minutes
SAA Annual Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
August 18, 2005
Present: Jennifer Schaffner, UCLA; Andrea Sheehan, Educational
Testing Service (ETS); Tom Dillard, University of Arkansas; Fernanda
Perrone, Rutgers; Sarah Keen, Cornell; Susan Tucker, Tulane; Linda
Blaser, NARA; Linda Daniel, Duke; Susan Woodland, Hadassah; Curtis
Lyons, Virginia Commonwealth; Margaret Jessup, Smith; Megan Guglielmi,
University of Maryland; Rebecca Johnson Melvin, University of Delaware;
Jennifer Gunter King, Mount Holyoke College; Kathryn Jacob, Radcliffe;
Janice Ruth, Library of Congress; Cristela Garcia Spitz, University of
Pittsburgh; Jennie Cole, Princeton; Janna Robinson, University of
Maryland; Susan Watson, American Red Cross; Cassie Pyle, University of
Pittsburgh; Susan Malbin, IMLS; Jessica Lacher-Feldman, University of
Alabama; Melissa Smith, Tulane; Marilyn Morgan, Radcliffe; Marna
Gerrand, Georgia State University; Johanna Carll, Radcliffe; Anke Voss,
Illinois Wesleyan University; Kate Colligan (Co-chair), University of
Pittsburgh; and Ellen Swain (Co-chair), University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Kate Colligan (Co-chair) called the business meeting to order at 4pm.
After speakers made announcements concerning the SAA diversity
committee and 2006 program committee, Anke Voss reported on an SAA
publication opportunity she is pursuing concerning the state of women’s
collections and archives across the globe. The work will be an edited
reader comprised of chapters from international authors. If interested
in more information, please contact Anke at avoss@iwu.edu.
Ellen Swain (Co-chair) reported that in March 2005, SAA provided all
roundtables with listserv capabilities. The WCRT listserv can be used
to post announcements from leadership and members, discuss women’s
collections issues, and foster collaboration among members.
Since 2002, Sarah Keen has served as the WCRT web liaison. She hopes
to turn over this responsibility to another member and serve the RT in
other capacities. We thank Sarah for her great work for and dedication
to WCRT!
Ellen Swain reported that WCRT members from Illinois and Iowa met at
the Midwest Archives Conference in Chicago in April to discuss a pilot
project that would update IL and IA holdings in Andrea Hinding’s 1979
women’s collections guide.
Kate Colligan provided an overview of the discussion at the WCRT
Working Group meeting held the previous day, Wednesday, August 17. The
meeting focused on brainstorming for 2006 SAA session proposals and on
discussing the possibility of a women’s collections pre-conference
half/full day workshop at SAA 2006 on administration issues. Themes for
sessions included: collecting on the political right; hidden women’s
collections in political, literary, and family archives; documenting
and using material culture to understand women’s experience; and
traveling exhibits. Issues discussed for the workshop included: donor
relations and funding; grant writing for women’s collections; regional
collecting, and collecting policy. Kate Colligan will circulate a more
detailed list of proposal and workshop ideas after the meeting.
After the business meeting concluded, Susan Tucker provided an
excellent program on documenting southern food ways which included
discussion of the work of the Newcomb Center for Research on Women at
Tulane University. Attendees were treated to samples of creole cream
cheese and meat.
The meeting adjourned at 5:30pm.
Submitted by Ellen Swain
August 24, 2005
Meeting Minutes - August 5, 2004 - Boston, MA
Meeting Minutes - August 22, 2003 - Los
Angeles, California
Women's Collection Roundtable Meeting Minutes
SAA Annual Conference
Los Angeles, California
August 22, 2003
Present: Valerie Brown, Kate Colligan (co-chair), Kathie
Burger Johnson, Sarah Keen (webmaster), Regina Lark
(speaker), Janice Ruth, Meagan Sniffin-Marinoff (SAA
Council liaison), Ellen Swain (co-chair), and Tanya
Zanish-Belcher.
The Women's Collections Roundtable (WCRT) met on August 22, 2003 from
4:45pm-6:15pm at the SAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
Following Co-chair Kate Colligan's welcome, Co-chair Ellen Swain
introduced speaker Dr. Regina Lark, graduate advisor for the UCLA
Center for the Study of Women and UCLA Women's Studies Program. Lark's
presentation, entitled "Striking Gold at the National Archives: My
Search for Japanese War Brides," outlined her research findings and
described her quest for archival and other sources.
After Lark's presentation, attendees introduced themselves and made
announcements concerning upcoming events and other projects. Tanya
Zanish-Belcher provided background information about the WCRT on-line
membership directory, which was complied in the early 1990's as a
networking means for all interested in women's collections and history.
Attendees considered whether to update this resource or to connect to
and utilize Loyola University's mapping project which provides much of
the same information and is up to date.
Colligan discussed the need to change administration of the WCRT
listserv. Currently the listserv set up requires Colligan to subscribe
and unsubscribe participants manually. To eliminate this time consuming
process, the RT co-chairs will look into a "self-subscribing" listserv
option.
Valerie Brown updated attendees on Loyola University's "mapping the
world" project concerning women's history repositories and collections.
To date, eighty repositories are included in the resource. Brown also
reported on the recent meeting of the National Council for Research on
Women, a group comprised of professionals from women's centers and
organizations across the country. The meeting stressed the need for
archivists and librarians to collaborate and become aware of what each
group is doing in the field. Attendees discussed a possible joint
meeting between the American Library Association and SAA librarians and
archivists on women's collections.
Webmaster Sarah Keen mentioned recent changes to all SAA websites. Keen
has added a new rotating photograph attraction to the WCRT site. She
implored attendees to send, via email attachment, photographs from
their institutions to add to the rotation. Attendees discussed content
for the website, including: a membership list, meeting minutes,
announcements and events (with the option to submit online), internet
resources on women's history/collections, information on grants and
fellowships, and a possible link to Loyola's mapping project.
The group ended the meeting by discussing session proposals for SAA
2004 in Boston. Colligan encouraged attendees to use the WCRT listserv
to continue to exchange ideas before the October proposal deadline. She
also encouraged submitters to contact the co-chairs for WCRT
endorsements. Last year, WCRT endorsed four proposals.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15pm. Members of the WCRT, Women
Archivists Roundtable and Women's Caucus met for dinner after the
meeting.
Submitted by Ellen Swain
Meeting Minutes - August 23, 2002 -
Birmingham, Alabama
Present: Co-chair Kate Colligan, University of Pittsburgh; Sherree
Bonaparte, National Museum of the American Indian; Rebecca
Hankins, University of Arizona; Julia Hendry, University of
Illinois @Chicago; Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Schlesinger Library;
Lauren Kata, Wayne State University; Sara Love, Athens
State University; Lucinda Manning; Fernanda Perrone,
Rutgers University; Elizabeth Russey, Union Theological
Seminary; Janice Ruth, Library of Congress; Mattie Sink,
Mississippi State University; Alison Stankrauff, Wayne State
University; Ellen Swain, University of Illinois @ U-C; Susan
Watson, American Red Cross; Susan Woodland, Hadassah; Kathy
Young, Loyola University; and Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa
State University.
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Schlesinger Library, attended the
meeting as SAA Council liaison. Co-chair Katherine Fleming was
unable to attend SAA.
Co-chair Kate Colligan welcomed the group and indicated that she
would lead the meeting in the absence of Katherine Fleming who was
unable to attend. She announced that Ellen Swain will serve as co-chair
for 2002-04, and Sarah Keen will serve as web manager for the
Roundtable. Colligan alerted the Roundtable to an oral history mapping
project, conducted by staff at the National Women's Oral History
Database at the City University of New York. She and the group had
questions concerning the construction of the project's questionnaire
that will need to be addressed. She also raised the possibility of
establishing a Roundtable listserv and upgrading the website.
SAA Council liaison Megan Sniffin-Marinoff invited members to
contact her with questions and concerns for Council. She discussed the
work of the SAA Task Force on Electronic Publications which is looking
at how SAA groups communicate. She encouraged the group read and
respond to its draft statement.
In the absence of Valerie Brown, Kathy Young reported on Loyola
University's project to produce a directory of women's collections and
repositories. Now documenting women in the second wave of feminism, the
project received 58 responses from its initial survey. Only 19 of the
58 responses are from "women centered" repositories. Currently, staff
is seeking funding to continue the project. The Roundtable also
discussed the advisability of updating and automating the women's
manuscript and archives guide produced in 1977. Members discussed the
possibility of taking on this project as a Roundtable activity.
Colligan asked Kathy Young to provide her with an outline of the
project for consideration.
Each attendee introduced herself to the group and provided a brief
description of projects and/or activities in her archives.
Janice Ruth, co-chair of the SAA Program Committee 2003, encouraged
the Roundtable to submit session proposals to the committee. She
discussed the theme of the conference and provided an overview of the
submission guidelines. The Roundtable also discussed the usefulness of
email discussion about session proposals prior to the SAA conference.
Speaking as a member of the Program Committee and of the Roundtable,
Ruth mentioned that Program Committee membership would be receptive to
women's collections session proposals.
The Roundtable opened discussion concerning possible session
proposals. Suggestions included sessions focusing on the Schlesinger
Library's 60th anniversary; activities of the Women's History Museum in
DC and/or the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas; and
western women writers' collections. Colligan will contact SAA about
setting up a listserv after the meeting so members can continue session
proposal discussions.
Guest speaker Lola Hendricks of the Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute did not attend the meeting. Meeting adjourned.
Submitted by Ellen Swain - September 15, 2002
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2006
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