Hall of Records Commission
Agenda

for a Meeting 
at the Maryland State Archives
Electronic Classroom
12 Noon
September 22, 1999

Attendees and Introduction of Special Guests

Reports and Minutes of Previous Meetings

• March 23, 1999
• Special meetings and Celebratory events
• Maryland Day, March 25, 1999, events
• Boys' Latin students and Author Ann Jensen with the Governor at the State House
• Lt. Governor Townsend presents the Annual Colonial Society Essay Contest award (judged by the State Archivist) in Baltimore
• Maryland House and Senate recognizes the 350th Anniversary of the passage of An Act Concerning Religion
• Reception on April 26, 1999 at the Archives for Pulitzer Prize winner William Warner's new book "Into the Porcupine Cave...," proceeds from which will benefit the Archives and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Celebrating the Liberty Tree on June 3, 1999 (see below)
Proposed Action:  motion of approval of minutes (as amended, if amended), and recognition of the special meetings of the Commission as defined by standing resolution

Records Retention and Disposal Schedules

• Retention
• Disposal

Proposed Action: motion of approval of Records Retention and Disposal Schedules as presented

Old Business

• report of the subcommittee on newspaper preservation (on hold until the return of the Director of Special Collections who is on medical leave)

Archivist's Report & Staff Activities 
     (see the Maryland State Archives Bulldog for additional details)

• What's in a Name?  "The Liberty Tree"
• Preserving Oversized Materials:  A Model System for the Courts, County Maps, and Private Surveyor's Records

Recent Acquisitions

• The Whitney Collection, MSA SC 4959

Finding Aids, Reference Services, and Publications

• Attorney General's Opinion on the Archives of Maryland series
• Archives of Maryland series and volumes in progress

Education & Outreach

• Summer Internship Program

Administrative & Fiscal Matters

• A grant to Lois Carr and the Archives from the Maryland Society of the Ark and the Dove
• an overview of the project

• Building Maintenance and Refurbishment: lessons in the aftermath of a hurricane
• flat roof failure and lack of budgetary recourse for repairing damage
• Budget Issues, Present and Future:

FY 2001 budget proposals
• The Archival Challenge:  ensuring quality, reliability and permanence for all forms of the historical record
• The Archival Challenge:  providing a comprehensive means of explaining the value and significance of the historical record
• The Archival Challenge:  acquiring safe, secure, and environmentally controlled space for existing collections and future acquisitions
• The Archival Challenge:  providing a spatial context for web based teaching

Forthcoming special meetings of the Commission & events of interest

• Judge Bell's Luncheon address to the Court and Legal History Network at the American Association of State and Local History meeting in Baltimore, October 2
• October 12, address to the Historic Annapolis Foundation on William Paca's Annapolis
• October 21, address to the Judicial Institute of Maryland on Conflict Resolution in Early Maryland
• October 24, address to the Northeast Historical Archaeology meeting on "What's in a Name and Why Should We Remember: the Calverts"
• Ocober 26, address to the Annapolis Rotary with Carol Parham on using family history in the schools, need for intern scholarship money
• October 27, address to the Brandeis University Women re: Maryland A New Guide to the Old Line State
• December 3, seminar at the Archives for the delegation from Anhui province, China, on our archival program
• January-March, 2000, Washington's Birthday, First Citizen Award,  Senate's Past Annual meeting (scholarship), Speaker's Medallion and Thomas Kennedy Awards, and Maryland Day celebrations (2)

Special Presentations

• A New Guide to the Old Line State (second edition)
• The 1915 Bromley Atlas of Baltimore County, Maryland, from the Whitney Collection, MSA SC 4959-B44-F1,  an Archives of Maryland Publication

Next meeting

Adjournment

Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse
State Archivist

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