NDSA:Outreach Meeting Minutes 03-14-11

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NDSA Outreach Call Monday, March 14, 2011 3 pm

Participants:

• Dever Powell, NLM
• Blane Dessy, FLICC
• John Spencer, BMS/Chace
• Dan Dodge, Thompson/Reuters
• Leannie Carles, UMich
• Lynn Rawley, UMich
• Jaime Stoltenberg, University of Wisconsin
• Jared Lyle, ICPSR/UMICH
• Peter Watters, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
• Kat Hagedorn, UMICH
• Helen Tibbo, UNC
• Debra Rossum, Scola

Agenda 1: Identify opportunities for community outreach

Dever Powell from the National Library of Medicine talked about NLM’s outreach efforts to the Library community. Dever works with students and interns, connecting students and projects.

• Students work on digital workflows. For example, some students have been trained to review books for scanning and entering specific information into tracking spreadsheets

Dever suggested to the group – and offered to help - connect interns, including Washington DC metro library school students (UMD and CUA) with our working group. We may want to think about having student representatives on this committee for various reasons:

• Previous conversation about slogan’s and viability – these students might generate different perspectives
• Consider having library school students as a subset of this committee; NDSA members could become mentors
• Creating non-paid internships in digital workflows could be a resume builder and opportunities for students and NDSA. Dever cited a UMD course on “digital preservation” as an opportunity to make connections.

Discussion/Q&A

• Participants on the call appeared receptive to the idea.
• John Spencer noted this may be a way to engage students who have 21st century mindsets for NDSA and also engage them in their educational perspectives. And also engage them in education on their perspective.
• Peter Watters mentioned there is another opportunity to take advantage with this community - Preservation Week 2011.
• Blaine Dessey mentioned he had experience tailoring practicum to professional interest, and he believed there would be interest in finding a way to incorporate internships or NDSA activities
• Helen Tibbo mentioned there are many chapters of ALA and SAA and museum groups. It may be difficulat to do unpaid internships.
• Dever also mentioned that we may want to think beyond library school students, and perhaps consider college and high school students. He has good experience with HS and college student. As a way to outreach to bring in folks,
• Butch Lazorchak mentioned this may be one of those communities we can identify and find a way to work with students and how to engage them. Thus far, we’ve talked about some of the higher level concepts, and this might be a way to about bottom up activities.

Helen suggested creating a list of members in a particular area of expertise who might be willing to do video conferencing classes or presentations for SAA and ALA (a “speakers bureau list of folks.)

Agenda 2: Identifying liaisons with other NDSA working groups

Butch presented an idea to the group and asked for volunteers who may be willing to liaise with other working groups so we know – as the Outreach Group – what is going on in other groups to better promote and understand NDSA activities. Some of us may already sit on one or two other groups and perhaps we could have but this group may want to establish identified liaison members.

Debra Rossum volunteered to be the NDSA:Content Working Group liaison. Dan Dodge volunteered to be the NDSA:Infrastructure Working Group liaison.

Agenda 3: Call for Social Media Tools

Butch asked the group to start thinking about opportunities for involvement with social media tools in the near future. It may be out our responsibility to establish the tools and outreach with other groups, but it may also be an opportunity for an NDSA member organization to take on the task of setting up a Twitter or Facebook page.

More on this topic may be brought up at future meetings.

Other Topics

Helen mentioned that SAA held a Contest and challenged SAA members to tell a story about what was found in their local archives that was meaningful. This may be something our group could consider and encourage members to do something that is fun – “How would you preserve something?” or “What endangered collections have you found in your area?” She also prefaced that if we do a campaign, we need to make sure that we are consistent with it in following years.