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Access and Preservation Committee
Minutes
June 25, 2005

Present: Brad Schaffner (Harvard), Brian Baird (Heckman, Inc.), Michael Brewer (Arizona), Diana Brooking (Washington), Mischa Buczkowski (Oregon), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Beth Feinberg (UCLA), Carl Horne (Indiana), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Sandra Levy (Chicago), Dan Pennell (Pittsburgh), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Andy Spencer (Wisconsin), Marek Sroka (Illinois), Lydia Wasylenko (Syracuse), Gwido Zlatkes (Harvard)

Brad Schaffner explained that co-chair Cathy Zeljak was out of the country and unable to attend the meeting.

Minutes: The minutes of the Boston Midwinter Conference meeting in 2005 were approved as submitted.

• SEES Home Page: Brad reported that Cathy continues to work on the SEES webpages (http://www.gwu.edu/~sees/) and encourages anyone with suggestions to contact Cathy directly (czeljak@gwu.edu)

• Virtual Meetings: Brad led a discussion of virtual meetings for the Access and Preservation Committee for the 2006 Midwinter Conference. It was felt that this committee relies on both conferences for project demonstrations and this would not work well with a virtual meeting. Instead it was decided that the meetings would be held at the conferences and committee members unable to attend would be kept informed via minutes distributed soon after the conference.

• Access to Russian Archives Demonstration: Kirill Fesenko, director of Online Publishing for East View Information Services, Inc. gave a demonstration of the database that the University of Kansas, East View, Rosarkhiv, and the Department of Education are creating, funded by a Title VI grant awarded to the University of Kansas. The digital database will include approximately 105 regional and national guides to Russian archives. Work on the database will be completed this fall, and the database will be freely available on both the University of Kansas and the Rosarkhiv servers.

Submitted by Jackie Byrd

Last updated 12/02/05