Historic Preservation Team

Members | Charge | Meeting Notes | Annual Reports | Work Plans |Meeting Schedule | Working Documents

Name: Historic Preservation Team

Team's reflector: histpres-lib@umd.edu

Meeting cycle: Once a month

Historic Preservation Team Members

Joanne Archer, National Trust Library, 5-6319
Patti Cossard, Architecture Library, 5-6316
Peter Curtis, National Trust Library, 5-6320
Doug McElrath, National Trust Library, 5-9210

Historic Preservation Team Charge

1. Develop a collection policy that defines the scope of the collection, assesses similar collections in other institutions, identifies needed resources and opportunities for future collection development, and defines criteria for appraising possible acquisitions


2. Establish priorities for processing initiatives. This includes assessing processing backlogs, workflow issues, cataloging needs, and guides/finding aids standards.


3. Assess preservation needs, conduct preservation surveys, and decide on priorities for Preservation Committee consideration.


4. Review reference policies and procedures. Decide on individual team members' reference responsibilities.


5. Assess current special projects (i.e. NTL Index) and consider future initiatives such as collecting web-based preservation information and digital library projects.


6. Develop programs and instructional materials that promote collections to various potential user groups.


7. Cultivate useful interaction with the faculty of the HISP program in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.


8. Reach out to special constituencies in the preservation community including the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation


9. Explore grant opportunities and other sources for external funding


10. Coordinate administrative responsibilities: project management, student training and supervision, and resource allocations.


11. Develop effective communication within the team via regular meetings, an email reflector, and the distribution of documents on a shared computer drive


12. Produce an annual work plan defining goals and priorities for team.

Meeting Notes

• January 19, 2006
• February 9, 2006
• March 19, 2006
• May 11, 2006
• June 15, 2006
• August 17, 2006

Annual Reports

• 2005 Annual Report

Work Plans

• Complete and begin implementation of the Collection Development Policy. We will complete the written plan and begin to develop and write policies and procedures for implementing it, beginning with archival and manuscript materials this year.
• By the end of 2006 complete a study of the future of the NTL index and develop options for its replacement, continuation or permanent discontinuation.
• We will continue to review the issues of becoming a repository for electronic preservation related literature, particularly "gray" materials.

Meeting Schedule and Roles

Meetings are from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. at the National Trust Library unless otherwise noted.

Working Documents

National Trust Library Collection Development Policy

National Trust Strategic Plan

return to top