LACCHA - The Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable of SAA

LACCHA 2011 Business Meeting: Proposed Changes to 2010 Meeting Minutes

2011-08-26T15:05:00.001-04:00

Posted on behalf of Michelle Gachette I hope everyone is doing well. I am sending my suggestions for changes to the meeting minutes via the listserv, because I have been experiencing technical problems with posting to the LACCHA blog. Below I give the present statement, and then with a yellow highlighter are my proposed suggestions. Thanks for reading, for your time, and consideration,

2011 LACCHA Business Meeting - Volunteer and Liaison Reports

2011-08-24T10:57:00.002-04:00

LACCHA has a stellar group of volunteers and liaisons who work on our fabulous newsletter, "Memoria", manage our our website, serve on SAA's Diversity Committee, and share with us news from other roundtables and archival organizations. They are: Silvia Mejia - liaison to SALAM Susan Laura Lugo - liaison for IFLA-LAC Bert Lyons - liaison to ICA and newsletter editor Michelle Gachette - LACCHA's

2011 LACCHA Business Meeting - 2011 Electronic Voting Results

2011-08-24T10:56:00.000-04:00

As noted on the listserv recently, Silvia Mejia was voted in by the majority of the membership as the roundtable’s new Jr. Co-Chair. Silvia will join Mario H. Ramírez, who will assume the post of Sr. Co-Chair this year. We thank all of you for your enthusiastic participation in this year’s elections and look forward to a productive year with Mario and Silvia at the helm of LACCHA. Congratulations

2011 LACCHA Business Meeting - Approval of 2010 Meeting Minutes

2011-08-24T10:53:00.002-04:00

The proposed minutes from the 2010 LACCHA business meeting have been on the roundtable’s website and open for comment for the past year. Several of you sent in suggestions and, pending any further comments, we want to confirm the minutes as they stand.

2011 LACCHA Business Meeting - Welcome

2011-08-24T10:50:00.003-04:00

Hello LACCHA Members and friends. We want to welcome you to our fourth blog meeting and our first online annual business meeting. In lieu of a physical meeting at SAA Chicago, we decided to nevertheless have a forum for the membership to exchange information and dialogue about this year’s past activities and what the future holds for the roundtable. This meeting also marks the end of Senior

Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE's) - Continued

2010-08-02T11:27:00.004-04:00

LACCHA's co-chairs were recently notified that SAA will begin working with ALA to continue development of a statement on Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE's). Last time we posted on this issue we received quite a response from LACCHA members, so we wanted to share this with you all and suggest we set aside time at our upcoming business meeting to discuss it.In January of 2010 SAA issued a

SAA 2010 - LACCHA Preliminary Agenda

2010-07-12T13:33:00.004-04:00

Susan and I have been busy finalizing the agenda for LACCHA's business meeting at SAA DC 2010. Please have a look at the proposed agenda and let us know what you think. We're excited to have Tim Law from Familysearch.org join us to discuss his work on digitization projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Plus we will here reports from your co-chairs & liaisons, and have the opportunity to

FOR REVIEW/COMMENT BY APRIL 4TH! SAA Draft Statement on Diversity

2010-03-26T13:37:00.004-04:00

SAA Council has drafted a statement on achieving diversity and has forwarded it to LACCHA for review and comment by all roundtable members.See: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/laccha/pdfs/diversity.pdf .SAA Council recognizes that the draft statement is one way to guide its diversity efforts, and is striving for a clear, simple explanation to help Council, SAA leaders, SAA members, and other

LACCHA Blog Meeting Wrap Up

2010-03-01T10:34:00.002-05:00

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's LACCHA blog meeting, either as a moderator, commenter, or simply as a reader. Here is a wrap up and future action items:Item 1) SAA 2010 in DC - LACCHA will be partnering with the newly-formed Human Rights Roundtable to co-host a panel session entitled "Silence No More!" which will discuss archives and archivists in peril with a special emphasis

LACCHA Blog Meeting #3: "American Archivist" and LACCHA

2010-02-25T10:12:00.002-05:00

In January Susan and I wrote to Mary Jo Pugh, editor of SAA's journal American Archivist, to explore the possibility of a collaboration with LACCHA. Mary Jo wrote back enthusiastically that she is "very interested in papers about Latin America and Caribbean archives/archivist issues". She proposed that we consider working on a series of articles across a number of issues. Alternatively, if we

LACCHA Blog Meeting #2: SAA Diversity Committee

2010-02-24T11:17:00.002-05:00

I wanted to bring to people's attention the changes to SAA's Diversity Committee that were approved by Council. The complete action item is viewable on the SAA website. In short, the important changes include:- committee will grow from 7 to 12 members;- 5 of the 12 seats will be reserved for members of SAA roundtables for whom diversity is a central issue, this includes LACCHA. These new

LACCHA Blog Meeting #1 - SAA Council Meeting

2010-02-22T10:55:00.005-05:00

Hello LACCHA Members: This week we are holding our 2nd LACCHA blog meeting, an on-line discussion of current projects and issues that LACCHA is working on. The discussion begins today, Feb 22 and will run through Friday, Feb 26. We encourage you all to participate by navigating to the blog and posting replies to the comments. In order to keep the discussion orderly, please remember to only

Upcoming LACCHA Blog Meeting

2010-02-09T10:37:00.000-05:00

I wanted to let everyone know that the next LACCHA blog meeting is tentatively scheduled for the week of February 21st through the 27th. A meeting agenda will soon be sent up to the LACCHA listserv with a confirmation of the new blog dates. We should have some interesting agenda items after last week's SAA Council meeting in DC. The Council's agenda included changes to SAA's Diversity Committee,

Traditional Cultural Expressions

2009-11-27T12:43:00.004-05:00

For the past year SAA Council has monitored the American Library Association's (ALA) evolving statement of principles regarding Traditional Cultural Expressions. ALA defines Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE's) as, but not limited to, narratives, poetry, music, art, designs,names, signs, symbols, performances, architectural forms, and handicrafts created by indigenous and/or traditional

1. LACCHA 2009 Annual Meeting in Austin - A Look Back

2009-10-23T12:08:00.004-04:00

What did you like about LACCHA's 2009 roundtable meeting in Austin? What could have been better?Ready reference:AgendaProposed Meeting MinutesShare your observations, feedback and ideas.

2. CoSA/NAGARA/SAA 2010 Panel Proposals

2009-10-23T12:07:00.002-04:00

Thanks to some inspired and dedicated work by several of our members, LACCHA was able to propose four (4) sessions for the 2010 conference in DC. For more details, see the LACCHA Listserv announcement dated September 28, 2009 (you will need to log in to your SAA LACCHA listserv account).Post any questions or comments you have about this process, the panel topics or the panelists.

3. Electronic Voting

2009-10-23T12:06:00.003-04:00

Part A of Section V (Governance) of the SAA Guidelines for Roundtables states in pertinent part as follows:Roundtables may conduct their annual leadership elections online. If a Roundtable chooses to do so, it must comply with the criteria and rules for Section elections. Refer to Part B of Section VIII (Governance) of the SAA Guidelines for more details on the Section Elections process.The

4. LANIC and LACCHA Archival Portal Project

2009-10-23T12:05:00.007-04:00

Find out more about LACCHA’s upcoming content collaboration project with the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC). Contribute your ideas and thoughts about how best to mobilize LACCHA members and ensure content quality for this important project.

5. Roundtable Communications

2009-10-23T12:04:00.001-04:00

Post information, questions, announcements and suggestions here for:Memoria, the LACCHA Newsletter (Vol. 1.1, Vol. 1.2, Coming soon! Vol. 2.1)LACCHA's Web siteLACCHA's ListservAnd be sure to indicate if you'd like to volunteer!

6. LACCHA 2010 Annual Meeting in DC

2009-10-23T12:03:00.002-04:00

It’s not too early to begin thinking about the agenda for LACCHA’s 2010 annual meeting to be held at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Society of American Archivists (CoSA/NAGARA/SAA) August 10-15, 2009, at the Marriott Wardman Plaza in Washington, DC.Shall we have a business meeting and

7. Future Directions

2009-10-23T12:02:00.001-04:00

What does the future hold for LACCHA? Where should we be headed? How should we get there?

8. Other Business/General Announcements

2009-10-23T12:01:00.005-04:00

Tell us what you think of the e-meeting blog format . . . Post upcoming items of interest here, or initiate a LACCHA blog topic of your own!