TRLN Task Group on Southern Americana Collections

(2009)

About the Committee
Chair: Tim West, UNC
Members
Committee Charge

Task Group Reports
Final Report (9/25/09)
--Intro, survey summaries,
recommendations, statement on gaps
Survey Data
Predominant Collections
--Predominant Collections
--Shared Collecting Areas
--Some Pertinent Collections outside TRLN

 

Background Documents
Research Triangle Cooperative Collections
Historical Documents
 

Archive Minutes
Social Sciences (3/3/89)
Art, Architecture, and Music (10/19/88)
Documents and Maps (7/20/88)
Literature (6/23/89)
Manuscripts (10/17/89)
North Caroliniana (6/7/88)
Rare Books (11/13/88)
Religion, Newspapers, and History (1/25/89)
 

TRLN Staff Contact
Mona Couts, Director

The Task Group on Southern Americana Collections will provide updates and reports to the Collections Council.

Charge: to reexamine our cooperative collection agreements in Southern Americana. With the goal of a comprehensive TRLN Southern Americana collection in mind, review the existing cooperative statement and recommend a revision to that high level statement. In addition, recommend guidelines for collecting responsibilities that include more depth and additional clarification to assure comprehensiveness by identifying gaps, reducing undesirable duplication, and identifying areas of desirable duplication. Consider special collections and general collections, and all formats.

Timeline

• Convene an initial meeting prior to the Collections Council meeting of May 22, 2009.
• Task Group chair attend Collections Council meeting to clarify charge and scope of task.
• Produce recommendations over the summer of 2009.

Members:

Pat Dominguez, UNC
Elizabeth Gorman, NCCU
Will Hansen, Duke
 

Darby Orcutt, NCSU
Tim West, (Chair), UNC
 

Staff to the Committee: Mona Couts