Archives and Special Collections Committee Annual Report 2020
submitted by Maristella Feustle
Current Roster
- Maristella J. Feustle, Chair, 2019-2023
- Sofia Becerra-Licha, Member, 2017-2021
- Jane Cross, Member, 2019-2023
- Frank Ferko, Member, 2019-2023
- Thomas Pease, Member, 2019-2023
- Jennifer Wochner, Member, 2019-2023
- Stacey Krim, Member, 2020-2024
- Christopher Lynch, Member, 2020-2024
- Matthew Testa, Member, 2020-2024
- Melissa E. Wertheimer, Member, 2020-2024
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
- Resume ongoing committee activity
- Activity resumed.
- Add new members
- Three new members added since February meeting in Norfolk.
- Update web page, “Archival Resources for Music Librarians”
- Page updated with links for terminology, best practice guidelines, and resources for discovery.
- Update main committee page with link to the finished, Guidelines for Archival Description of Notated Music, A Supplement to Describing Archives: A Content Standard, as approved by the Society of American Archivists, and the larger document, Archival Description of Notated Music (ADNM), on Humanities Commons.
- Page updated with Guidelines. Request sent to add ADNM.
List of Future Goals
- Continue updating “Archival Resources for Music Librarians” web page [goal area: Organizational excellence]
- Feasibility study of an “ask an archivist” function on the main committee web page. [goal areas: Organizational excellence; membership]