SAH WiA Registers Committee | Virtual Meeting Agenda, March 4, 2021

Link to the document:  SAH WiA AG RegCom_3MtngAgenda

  1.   Opening and Organization
  • Third Meeting of the SAH WiA Registers Committee – Sokolina 

– Congratulations to All on Women’s History Month!
– Gratitude to All for your correspondence and ideas, to Rebecca for organizing the meeting, Barbara and Meral for developing first collections, Barbara for involving students in this project, Barbara and Meg for the ongoing discussion and consulting on Registers formatting and the interface for online cross-references
– March 1 Launch of Registers Committee page in SAH Commons, as part of the Program “March 2021: SAH WiA AG Celebrates Women’s History Month”—Siefert and Sokolina
– Self-nomination received: Gillian Mahoney, Library Technician at Library of Congress, Board Member of the SAH-Latrobe Chapter in Washington DC Gillian Mahoney | LinkedIn

  • Committee Members—individual comments on the initial work of collecting data (1-2 mins)
  1.   Guidelines and Members’ Contribution
  • Guidelines

– Individual Members’ contribution: time table, frequency of updates (biweekly)
– Registers and Catalogues database format and interface for online cross-references to be linked to the SAH WiA AG Commons platform and the sah.org site [Core?] [SAH outreach?]
– Networks + Archives, Libraries, and Museums database– to include weblinks, (key words?), comments, a particular focus of interest

  • Committee Members

– Barbara Opar—leadership on creating Biblio Catalogues, docs.google.com/spreadsheets: 1/books by women; 2/books & dissertations about women; (3/smaller formats—postponed); students’ participation (Hannah Deichler); sorting out SAH reference pages, i.e., Booklists and Exhibition Catalog Lists (sah.org)
– Meral Ekincioglu—inquiry on Committee members’ exchange of lists and data: discuss/confirm
– Nina Stritzler-Levine—Events Update; List of Catalogues + List of Exhibitions by title: Link & up to 5 lines per listing
– Gül Kale—sorting out Digital Resources | Society of Architectural Historians (sah.org) Working with students; creating programs to support Committee projects; grant applications
– Meg Vickery—Committee nexus to integrate lists, receiving-retaining all submissions for further organization            – Anna Sokolina—collect submissions and expedite to designated theme leader; list of Authored Collections, and measures to honor authorship of donors

  1.   Discussion
  • Intellectual Property, List of Donors, List of Individual Collections — Anna

While adopting authored collections, the Committee shall honor them as gifts to the SAH WiA AG community:  To create a List of donors, and retain also the original authored lists

  • Funding Opportunities for this Project

Budgeting—consult with the SAH Office, grant applications—discuss with the SAH WiA AG Secretary-Treasurer

  1.   Program relevance: “March 2021: SAH WiA AG Celebrates Women’s History Month”

– SAH WiA AG Communications Team to announce and cross-post the Registers Committee project on SAH WiA group websites (postponed)
– Place a Registers Committee announce in SAH Opportunities (postponed)

  1.   Other Business