VIVA Special Collections Committee
Minutes

Attendees: Ned Berkeley (UVA), Kay Domine (W&M), Paul Koda (GMU), Gail McMillan (VPI), Betsy Pittman (VCU) and guests invited for the photographic scanning training.

The meeting was extremely brief and covered only those developments that had occurred since the April meeting.

1. The Special Collections Subcommittee is now the Special Collections Committee with direct representation to the Steering Committee. Nancy Marshall of William and Mary is our liaison.

2. Betsy shared the letter she had received from Jean Major (ODU) regarding the status of Special Collections at that institution and their participation in this portion of the VIVA project. At this time the library does not have a special collections program but will contact the committee when their plans are more fully developed.

3. Committee members were informed that the Steering Committee had approved $3,000 for the Cornell workshop. Further questions will be relayed to Nancy for clarification.

4. Discussed the current status of LVA representation on the SCC.

5. Set a tentative date of mid-September for our next formal meeting. Gail has volunteered to make the appropriate links to specific institutions from the draft Homepage (based at Tech). Members were requested to send the addresses to her when they become available.

The meeting was adjourned for training at 10:30 am.

Respectfully submitted,
Betsy Pittman