Date

3-4pm 

Attendees

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
2minHellosBridget



Gear ListBridgetDiscussion around the Gear List and how much it has used/how up to date it is. There has been some interest from the AAO in the list, Bridget will follow up and expand these notes in answer to member inquiries. 

New Initiatives - March 2020 Bridget

Steve Marks reported that he had been contacted by Art Rino and Loren Fontin of Our Digital World about a potential New Initiatives grant towards a digitization project of local newspapers. This would be similar to the NDNP project in the United States. This would help with standardization and would provide and open resource for all. 

Jeremy Heil, Sara Janes, and Dan Scott agreed this would be valuable both from a reference perspective as well as setting standards and providing guidance. Sarah Simpkin inquired about whether they were planning on doing the work in the plan. There was some discussion about what would be expected of the DC community.

Steve will see about getting something in writing from them for the community to review. Bridget will coordinate setting up an additional meeting time for discussion of the proposal if needed.


HiringJessGeneral inquiries around hiring. Tom Smyth said that LAC is looking to hire more digital archivists. And Jess reported that UofT's Media Commons is hiring a Media Specialist.


Next Meeting:  February 2020

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