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

The HistoryMakers IMLS Advisory Board Meeting Minutes October 17-18, 2010• Ann Bishop: John Unsworth couldn't be here, so I won't try to cover his realm of the curriculum. I'mprobably here because of my work in community informatics and community engagement. If you lookat our numbers, we have a long way to go in terms of diversity. We don't try to increase diversity outof the goodness of our hearts, but because it's absolutely essential to reaching the communities wehope to serve. We have an IMLS grant in community informatics, trying to take the archive out intothe community at a grassroots level, and maybe through this more young people will see the field asrelevant to them. Leon Dash has worked with children as young as 10 or 11 on oral history andinvestigative journalism. We have a relationship with the Puerto Rican cultural center, where studentsin a high school curated an exhibit in the Newberry library. What are our communities engaged in,and how can we bring our resources and skills into those projects.Breakout Sessions: Host Institutions to discuss the “Perfect Fellow” while schools revise the fellowshiplisting.Host Institutions: The “Perfect Fellow”Host Institutions are requested to list the following: skill sets, demeanor and academic training of the idealfellow. Entry-level salary and workplace specifics of the institution.• Alabama:o self-startero curiouso interested in African American historyo ok with life in small southern cityo like peopleo ability to work aloe and with peopleo organization skillso research skillso writing skillso multi-taskero ability to work with a wide variety of peopleo basic understanding of archival principleso some arrangement and description experienceo good grounding in US and African American historyo writing skillso $30,000 with an excellent benefits packageo some Saturday work; you can really live on $37,000 in Montgomeryo open to public 8:30-4:30, flex hours available (7:30-5:00)• Amistado papers of visual artists, museums, historians,o social media and websiteso multimedia formatso oral history and filmo arranging and describing manuscriptso organizational recordso photographso flexibilityo ability to work with diverse research communityTaken by John Briestansky and Emily Martorano, compiled by Emily Martorano.