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

The HistoryMakers IMLS Advisory Board Meeting Minutes October 17-18, 2010Monday, October 18Presentations, cont.• Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State Archives: Fellow will bring value to the collection. Fellow will writeapproximately one biography per month. Slavery project is effort to document every individualengaged in slavery prior to Civil War. Wikipedia articles must use secondary sources for research.Copyright notices on Maryland State Archives biographies nearly prevented them from being cited onWikipedia - changed to public domain. "The more proprietary we are, the less useful we are going tobe. For The HistoryMakers to be successful, it must gradually become totally and freely accessible."Maryland State Archives is 80% funded by their own income. Only state archives with a stateendowment. 7% of Maryland State Archives income is reinvested in the endowment. How to becomesustainable? Archives much become more integrated and accessible for future generations.• Linda Kerr, Mayme Clayton Library & Museum: personal collection, Mayme A. Clayton was librarianat USC and avid book collector. Interest grew into African American culture: books, manuscripts,motion pictures, photographs, newspapers, periodicals. Mayme Clayton passed away in 2006; sonAvery Clayton raised funds and moved collection to dedicated facility in Culver City. Building is ownedby the state, loaned to the county, maintained by Culver City. Dianne Watson will help negotiate along-term lease. Collection includes rare books, manuscripts, slave papers, motion pictures, movieposters, sheet music, photographs, and three copies of the first issue of Ebony. Currently not readyfor researchers. Partnerships: researchers can use collection if they help process Partnership withHuntington Library. Three part-time staff members, 25 volunteers, interns from UCLA and SJSU.Fellow would be processing Founder's papers (~20 cubic feet). Congresswoman Dianne Watson willdonate her papers and memorabilia. "To know where you're going, you have to know where you'vebeen." Executive Director Avery Clayton passed away in 2009 - lost year of progress and loss ofinstitutional memory. Received IMLS grant to search for new Executive Director.• Dan Linke, Mudd Library at Princeton University: Princeton did not admit African Americans for 200+years. "Institutions are not monolithic. Woodrow Wilson is dead." Since 2000: Summer Fellowshipprogram. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply but haven't. Library is part of the Departmentof Rare Books and Special Collections. Fellow will have discrete responsibilities but will also aid inother aspects of the department. Library has archives of Princeton University and 20th century publicpolicy papers, including Civil Rights and economists who did development work in Africa. Good trackrecord with project archivists over the years. Early adopter and leader in More Product, Less Process.Big in social media; plans for updated website. Potential fellow trips to Philadelphia and New York.Why is Schomburg Library not participating?o Julieanna Richardson: Howard is leaving, library is in transition.o Jessie Carney Smith: Why is Howard University not participating?o Julieanna Richardson: trouble making contact, was on our list. IMLS wanted a diverse groupof host institutions• Dan Linke, cont.: Fully expect to extend Fellowship for a second year. Collection major areas: publicpolicy (John Foster Dulles, et al), economists, jurisprudence (includes ACLU collection - library nowhas funding to process southern office of ACLU, will be completed when Fellow enters program).o Kathleen Bethel: loves idea of social networking. Would like to see more use of Facebook,Twitter, and blogs. Fellows should contribute to institution's libguide.o Dan Linke: fellow will also assist with liaison work with records manager in African Americanstudies.o Julieanna Richardson: how much of Princeton's collection deals with the black experience?o Dan Linke: no institutional examination of role in slave trade like at Brown University.o Kathleen Bethel: has campus experience of blacks at Princeton in the 20th century beendocumented in the archives?Taken by John Briestansky and Emily Martorano, compiled by Emily Martorano.