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Access and Preservation Committee
Minutes
June 27, 2004

Present: Brad Schaffner (Harvard), Cathy Zeljak (George Washington), Maira Bundza (Western Michigan), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Joanna Dyla (Stanford), Joanna Epstein (Harvard), Beth Feinberg (UCLA), Inna Gudanets (Stanford), Jared Ingersoll (Columbia), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Pat Kreitz (Stanford), Terri Miller (Michigan State), Mary Jane Petrowski (ACRL), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Marek Sroka (Illinois)

Khrushchev Audio Archives: Irina Lynden, Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Rhode Island, spoke about the project at Brown University to digitize the audio tapes of Nikita Khrushchev, the tapes used as a basis for "Khrushchev Remembers". Irina reported on the history of the tapes and on the project at Brown. When the project is completed, the final product (300 hours of audio) will be made available to libraries. It is hoped that Irina will be able to report again on the project and demonstrate the audio at the Mid-Winter conference in Boston.

Minutes: The minutes of the January, 2004 committee meeting in San Diego were approved as submitted.

Review of the Committee's Name, Charge, and Membership: In recognition of recent tradition, SEES decided to merge the Preservation and Electronic Resources Committees at the Mid-Winter meetings, and this was the first meeting of the newly combined committee. The details:

• Committee Name: Access and Preservation Committee
• Committee Charge: Coordinates the Section's focus on electronic resources, and on the preservation and conservation of materials in all formats that are of relevance to Slavic and East European librarianship. Oversees the maintenance of the SEES home page.
• Membership: There was a question about the membership of the committee. The roster listed all members as serving from 2004-2006, meaning that there could be a committee with no carryover members. Janice Pilch reported that this happened, because this is seen as a new committee. She will find out if half of the members could serve 1 or 3 year terms, to that staggered terms could ensured from then on.

  Submitted by Jackie Byrd

  Last updated 9/26/04