Hall of Records Commission
Agenda

for a Meeting
at the Maryland State Archives
Electronic Classroom
12 Noon
October 23, 1997

Call to Order by the Chairman

Introduction of Special Guests

• Mrs. Ardath Cade
• Dr. Carson Gibb

Reports and Minutes of Previous Meetings

• May 29, 1997
• Special meetings
• Dedication of the Portrait of Chief Judge Robert C. Murphy (Ret.)

Records Retention and Disposal Schedules

• Retention
• Disposal

Old Business

Archivist' s Report & Staff Activities

• Illness of Marion Warren, a good friend, volunteer, and benefactor of the Archives
• Keeping an Eye on the MEC and Maryland State Archives web sites for improvements and additions
• staff activities as reported regularly in the in-house newsletter, The Bulldog, now also published on the World Wide Web.
• report on State Court Historian's conference at the Supreme Court, June 3, representing the Vice Chairman
• report on the Archivist's research trip to England
• report on the proposed work on the State House
• report on the House Appropriations Committee visit, September 9
• report on the press conference with the Comptroller Goldstein & Secretary of State Willis announcing the implementation of the NEH grant to the Archives and the Anne Arundel County Schools

Recent Acquisitions

• State Agency Records (accessions & transfers)
• Special Collections and Special Collections microfilm

Finding Aids, Reference Services, and Publications

• the Archives on the World Wide Web
• Museum Without Walls
• Biography On-Line & proposed publications
• First Ladies & Official Hostesses research project: proposal for a book
• proposal for a History of the Maryland State House
• publications featuring the records of the Archives:
• Dr. Carson Gibb's supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland
• The Baltimore Strikes and Riot of 1877, the most recent publication in the Documents for the Classroom series

Education & Outreach

• Summer Internship Program
• NEH, Anne Arundel County Schools, Maryland State Archives Collaborative Program

Administrative & Fiscal Matters

• proposed cooperative program in the filming and/or scanning of Maryland newspapers from the Library of Congress
• proposed cooperative web-based project in research and writing about historic sites with Goucher College
• Report on Dr. Papenfuse's trip to England in July to do research on the Early Settlement of Maryland and Watermarks on Paper
• Loan of the original recorded version of the Act of Toleration to the Library of Congress (consideration of a resolution of approval for the loan)
• Peabody Art Collection
• introduction and report of the new Curator of Artistic Property
• Conservation grant proposal

Budget Issues- Present & Future

• FY 1999 Budget submittal
• The Archival Challenge: ensuring quality, reliability and permanence for all forms of the historical record
• The Archival Challenge: space for existing collections and future acquisitions- beyond the year 2000
• The Archival Challenge: providing a spacial context for interpretation and education
• Securing non-general fund support to access & preserve the historical record
• re-submittal of a proposal for the National Digital Library Competition (Ameritech/Library of Congress)

Forthcoming special meetings of the Commission & events of interest

Special Presentations

• a thank you to counsel
• a presentation by Mrs. Ardath Cade to the President of the Senate and the Curator of Artistic Property of two prints in memory of Senator John Cade

Next meeting

Adjournment (to be followed by a Special Showing of The Eye of the Beholder, an MPT tribute to Marion E. Warren)

Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse
State Archivist

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