Newsletter Committee Minutes – 2022 March Virtual
March Meeting, Virtual
Friday, March 4, 2022
12 p.m.-1 p.m. Mountain Time
Zoom
Attendees
- Deb Raftus (University of Washington)
- Dick Hacken (Brigham Young University)
- Brendan Nieubuurt (University of Michigan)
- Megan Bennett (Farmington Public Library, Farmington NM)
- Brian Vetruba (University of Minnesota), Kathleen Smith (Stanford University)
- Lana Soglasnova (University of Toronto)
- Masha Stepanova (Miami University)
Minutes
I. Welcome and introductions
II. Progress so far
- 3 submissions received so far, 2 through the form and 1 by email
- Reminder call to be sent March 15 to ESS – L (Masha), Slavlib (Masha), IS – L (Megan), Westline (Masha)
- Official deadline – March 31
- Absolute last deadline – May 31
III. Special section on Ukraine
- Add a bullet to the call for submissions welcoming content on Ukraine
- Invite submissions on current situation in Ukraine, particularly focused on librarianship
- Preservation of Ukrainian archive
- Solicit submissions from contributors in Ukraine, possibly in other languages
- A suggestion was made to bring back the bibliography section
- Committee decided to link out to libguides instead
IV. Other business and reminders
- Volunteers needed for chair/co-chair of the Newsletter committee
- Current members/chairs need to document their work to make it easier for future chairs and members
- There is a handbook for all roles in the section
- Reminder: keep accessibility in forefront of your mind when adding content, add alt text to images
- WordPress duplicates images unless you edit an image in the gallery
- Only upload an image once and edit in WordPress gallery
- When you link to an image, every iteration is a separate image in the media gallery
- Web team will decide how to get rid of duplicates that are already there
V. Next meeting
- Friday, May 13 at 12 p.m. Mountain time
Minutes submitted by [Masha Stepanova]