Kathi serving on the Friends of the Bancroft Library Council.
Irvine (Elvia)
Concluded search for archivist for special collections. Archivist was selected and will begin in January 2019.
Continuing to get integrated into new position.
Working with history intern on materials for Cross Cultural Center in preparation for their 40th anniversary.
Processing 2 large faculty papers collections.
Merced (Jim)
Beginning discussions with campus records manager and academic senate. All incoming records will be electronic.
Started preliminary discussions with records manager regarding handling email
San Diego (Marlayna)
New Digital Archivist, Tori Maches, started in August.
New UL visit to Special Collections.
CoUL likely to begin discussion about looking for a way to systematically receive and archive email.
San Francisco (Polina)
Library going through reorganization.
Getting lots of campus requests to review records as units are preparing to move to new campus area.
Very busy due to staff vacancies.
Santa Barbara (Matt)
AUL position to be posted soon.
New UL started in April.
Electronic Records Day - gave presentation for departments with records manager and sustainability office. Quite a bit of interest with standing room only. Email was a strong topic.
Have you received any email in collections? If so, how do you handle it?
Berkeley: has received some email, but the collections remain unprocessed due to staff shortages and still determining how to handle access issues.
San Francisco: in process of receiving a large collection from retired faculty member. Started conversation about Chancellor's email.
Irvine: have a collection on ePADD, but it is currently on hold awaiting ePADD upgrade.
Santa Barbara: born digital staff member recently left and Matt is now responsible for this area. They have email from a faculty member forthcoming.
Any discussions at campus level of handling email capture?
San Diego: has access to older Chancellor email through the records manager's content management system, but can not provide access to researchers. Have collections from two provosts ready to be received, but haven't brought them in yet awaiting the digital archivist and some decisions on how to handle and store them.
Santa Barbara: Records Manager is concerned about email content that could be used in lawsuits.
Group mentioned the following reports as good resources to read and discuss at future meetings to help develop local framework and possibly use to develop guidelines:
