Atlantic Chapter Annual Report 2019
submitted by Thomas Pease
Current Roster
Officers:
- Thomas Pease, Chair (Library of Congress)
- Beth Royall, Secretary-Treasurer (University of West Virginia)
- Kathleen DeLaurenti, Past Chair (Peabody Institute)
Chapter Committees:
- Communications Committee (Brittany Jones, chair, through August 2018)
- Nominating Committee (James Cassaro, chair ; Laura Yust)
- Membership Committee (currently vacant)
- Program Committee (Thomas Pease, Beth Royall, Kathleen DeLaurenti, Steve Henry (University of Maryland))
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
- To apply for grants for programs that increase outreach efforts for underrepresented communities and provide programs for which librarians (both professionally credentialed and non-professionally credentialed or whose titles indicate such status) can participate and develop without travel to the national meeting. This was accomplished this year by securing a grant from MLA to bring Alice Carli (Sibley Music Library/Eastman School of Music) down to the 2019 meeting in College Park, Maryland to teach a score preservation workshop and present on preservation decision making.
- To facilitate travel to the national meeting by offering travel assistance grants. We awarded this grant to Zachary Tumlin.
List of Future Goals
- To revive the Membership Committee and engage a new webmaster.
- To update our website and foster a more active social media presence.
- To encourage conference presentation submissions through Humanities Commons.
- To apply for grants for programs that increase outreach efforts for underrepresented communities and provide programs for which librarians (both professionally credentialed and non-professionally credentialed or whose titles indicate such status) can participate and develop without travel to the national meeting.
- To facilitate travel to the national meeting by offering travel assistance grants.