Attachment B: Conference Call/Meeting Minutes - The History Makers

The HistoryMakers IMLS Advisory Board Meeting Minutes October 17-18, 2010• Ann Bishop: community of learning, group activity, what do we do for ideal learning? How will welearn from each other? What are expectations for learning community?• Corinne Jorgenson: staff retreat - teambuilding exercises (she did not attend but can let us know).[Review curriculum day by day, with topics, field trips, presentations]• Kathleen Bethel: would like biographies of African American bibliophiles and archivists. (DorothyPorter, Sean Burke, Ernest Kaiser) Can watch The HistoryMakers interviews of Walter Hill, HowardDodson.• Dan Johnson: emphasis for them to go to their host institution with archival knowledge• Kathleen Bethel: scholarly communication and advocacy?• Dan Johnson: host institutions added aspects of curriculum.• Ann Bishop: can we include career and other future trends - community archiving or other new jobswhich develop in the profession. Cohort development is especially important with minority studentsand first generation college graduates - very powerful, an extra layer of impact beyond which fellowswill accomplish at their host institutions - they are in charge of shaping future of field.• Dan Johnson: fellows will be interviewed at the end of the training institute but maybe they should beinterviewed more often (i.e., as they are participating in workshops, video journals).• Howard Rosenbaum: make sure fellows do plenty of writing• Brenda Banks: sent her comments to Emily last week, regarding resources. Bring more currentsources in to curriculum. Hunter's book was good when it was current. Second edition is no longercurrent. Ritzenthaler - preservation. Kathleen Roe. New book on reference. Go to SAA website:Archives Fundamentals 2 series. Amy Cooper Cary: online glossary is very useful(http://www2.archivists.org/glossary/preface)Field trips: will help supplement the topics.• Kathleen Bethel: how will students receive historical readings?o Julieanna Richardson: chapters will be scanned.• Kathleen Bethel: "Jesus, Jobs, and Justice" by Bettye Collier-Thomas - very valuable for researchmethods and research in black church history corrections.• Brenda Banks: her first book on black migration is still relevant.• Kathleen Bethel: Tony Burroughs for genealogical research. 1970 - Directory of Afro-AmericanResources, edited by Walter Schatz• Amy Cooper Cary: most recent articles on curriculum are from 2008. If articles are not from threemost recent issues, there will be a problem distributing links.• Brenda Banks: potential for collaborative cooperation with SAA. Amy Cooper Cary: talk to TeresaBrinati (SAA Director of Publishing) Nancy Perkins-Beaumont is Executive Director.o Julieanna Richardson: we should invite them over.• Julieanna Richardson: we have contacted BMRC for a joint session/meet and greet• Kathleen Bethel: "Mapping the Stacks" at University of Chicago - what was in their curriculum?http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/ Director - Jacqueline Goldsby• Julieanna Richardson: too many readings during NEH institute, readings were not always discussedduring the class sessions.o Dan Johnson: readings will relate to sessions. We will try to bring in guest lecturers forhistorical topics.o Howard Rosenbaum: have guest lecturers suggest 3 readings as soon as possible. Asklecturers to think of two questions for each reading to stimulate the discussion.o Ann Bishop: clarify if the lecturers would like to have readings distributed beforehand.o Kathleen Bethel: speakers rarely speak to the readings.Archival curriculum:Taken by John Briestansky and Emily Martorano, compiled by Emily Martorano.