{"id":2484,"date":"2012-01-30T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:17:10","slug":"ecpn-december-meeting-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/01\/30\/ecpn-december-meeting-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"ECPN December Meeting Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

ECPN MEETING MINUTES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, December 19, 2011<\/p>\n

Conference Call Attendees: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Abby Aldrich<\/p>\n

Amy Brost (Communications)<\/p>\n

Molly Gleeson (Chair)<\/p>\n

Amber Kerr-Allison (outgoing Professional Education and Training)<\/p>\n

Gwen Manthey<\/p>\n

Rachael Perkins-Arenstein<\/p>\n

Carrie Roberts (co-Professional Education and Training)<\/p>\n

Megan Salazar-Walsh (co-Outreach Coordinator)<\/p>\n

Ruth Seyler (AIC Staff)<\/p>\n

Eliza Spaulding (Vice Chair)<\/p>\n

Emily Williams (ETC)<\/p>\n

Ryan Winfield (Staff Liaison)<\/p>\n

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Liaisons:<\/em><\/p>\n

Amy Baker, BPG and Publications<\/p>\n

Genevieve Bieniosek, E&T Committee<\/p>\n

Avigail Charnov, Architectural Conservators<\/p>\n

Amanda Holden, Textile Specialty Group<\/p>\n

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1. Minutes Approval<\/strong> \u2013 November 21 minutes were approved.\u00a0 Amy will distribute to the AIC-emerging list, and post on the AIC blog in the ECPN category.<\/p>\n

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2. Introductions<\/strong> (Molly) \u2013 Liaisons as well as ECPN committee members are participating in today\u2019s call.\u00a0 List of all liaisons is on Basecamp.\u00a0 Molly introduced newcomers to the committee.<\/p>\n

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3. AIC 2012 ECPN Sessions<\/strong> (Ruth) \u2013 ECPN informational meeting will be held again next year, the Happy Hour at the end of the conference, and the second year of the Portfolio Session.\u00a0 A lot of positive feedback on that from 2011.\u00a0 Next deadline January 19 \u2013 need to decide on ECPN events so there can be placeholders in the program, and an idea of date and time.\u00a0 For planning purposes, Ruth is allocating meeting space based on ECPN holding all three.\u00a0 Discussion on 2011 Portfolio Session: representatives from all training programs were present; attendees ranged from pre-program to museum professionals; numbers were mostly pre-program but interest across experience levels was high.\u00a0 Hope to have a larger, more visible space next year.\u00a0 Over 60 people attended, according to Ryan and Amber. Amber had contacts at the graduate programs from the Student Research Repository project.\u00a0 She reached out to the programs, which then identified representatives to present portfolios.\u00a0 Lots of career stages were represented: successful portfolios for entry to conservation graduate programs, current students, graduating students entering the field.\u00a0 Would be helpful to have an on-site storage space for the portfolios where presenters could keep portfolios before and after the session.\u00a0 Carrie will be organizing the Portfolio Session for 2012, working with Molly.<\/p>\n

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4. AIC ECPN Poster<\/strong> (Carrie) \u2013 Carrie thanked Amber and others for help editing the proposal, which was accepted.\u00a0 Theme involves outreach using social media, illustrated with case studies and a \u201chow-to\u201d section on how conservators can use new media tools.\u00a0 Call for ideas both through personal contacts, Facebook and the blog resulted in a number of ideas.\u00a0 Carrie is organizing a poster working group, and will schedule a call on gathering content from volunteer contributors, as well as soliciting case studies from private practices or other groups not well represented yet.\u00a0 May be an \u2018interview\u2019 format.\u00a0 Brainstorm content for \u2018how-to\u2019 session, to determine which media tools will be most useful.\u00a0 Set content deadline so there is design time for Amy and Carrie.\u00a0 Anyone is welcome to contact Carrie to join the working group.\u00a0 Amber thought perhaps there could be a computer near the poster with live examples, but Ruth indicated that it would be cost-prohibitive.\u00a0 Any device, such as a phone with hot-spot ability, could provide a working demo, but this is in violation of the contract with the conference hotel, which requires the use of their Internet connections for all official conference programming.\u00a0 Ryan suggested a call-out on the poster itself or a flier that drives attendees to a blog post containing all the applicable links.\u00a0 May also be able to create a remote demo that doesn\u2019t require an internet connection.<\/p>\n

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5. AIC 2012 Angels Project<\/strong> (Ruth) \u2013 Sites are still under consideration.\u00a0 Identified one site, but scope of the work would exceed one day, with more intensive treatments needed.\u00a0 Two more sites being explored.\u00a0 Will have a site selected in January.\u00a0 In past years, have not had any issues recruiting volunteers.\u00a0 This year, will see how many volunteers the site can handle, and what type of project it will be, before seeing how many ECPN volunteers will be needed.\u00a0 Every Angels Project is different, based on the needs of the individual site.<\/p>\n

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6. Mentorship Program<\/strong> (Eliza) \u2013 Review of the program is in progress.\u00a0 Refining how matches are done.\u00a0 ECPN to shoulder more responsibility to support AIC staff.\u00a0 Letters drafted to current mentee and mentor applicants who have been on hold.\u00a0 Editing nearly complete.\u00a0 Ruth indicated that they would be sent out the first week in January, with responses required by perhaps the 18th.\u00a0 Letter drafts are all on Basecamp under Files tab.\u00a0 Ryan will get back to Eliza today.\u00a0 Ryan will send them out.\u00a0 Survey being developed for current applicants to see what their needs are and what they want to get out of the mentor relationship.\u00a0 List on Whiteboard on Basecamep of possible mentoring projects that pairs could do together.\u00a0 Will survey applicants about those activities and ask them to rate their importance.\u00a0 Survey can either go out with the letters, or later on.\u00a0 Ryan felt the list could be helpful for the application process also, instead of \u2018why would you like to have a mentor\u2019 \u2013 an expansion of that question.\u00a0 Ryan, Eliza, Gwen, and Emily to have a call about the survey.\u00a0 Use it to survey both mentor and mentee applicants, and moving forward, collect this information from all applicants.\u00a0 Will discuss an overall mentorship program timeline on their call.<\/p>\n

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7. Regional Liaisons<\/strong> (Megan) \u2013 Look for regional representatives to help expand ECPN, post about local events, post to the blog and Facebook to keep the group informed, may also organize events (lab tours, portfolio reviews, social events, etc).\u00a0 Drafting a letter to solicit involvement, also calling on personal contacts.\u00a0 Will send out the letters the first week of January, and give 2-3 weeks for a reply.\u00a0 By next call, may have the regional liaisons identified.\u00a0 Quarterly Forum Calls \u2013 one of those calls could be devoted to regional liaisons to talk about their activities and what the regional conservation associations are doing.\u00a0 Regional liaison ideas are on Basecamp \u2013 contact Megan and Anisha with any additional ideas.<\/p>\n

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8. Forum Calls<\/strong> (Amy and Molly) \u2013 Amy and Molly drafted a survey about the Forum Calls that is on Basecamp.\u00a0 It asks basic questions about whether or not people would be interested in quarterly Forum Calls for the full membership, and asks them to rate possible topics of interest.\u00a0 Ryan will add one more question about what duration of the call would work best for people: 30, 60, 90 minutes for example.\u00a0 Ryan will craft one more question, and then take the draft survey from Basecamp and develop it into a Surveymonkey survey.\u00a0 If he is able to send it out early in January 2012, the results can be discussed on the next call.\u00a0 The topic and time for the first \u201cForum Call\u201d will be informed by the survey results.<\/p>\n

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9. ECPN Blog<\/strong> (Ryan) \u2013 The ECPN blog location has changed.\u00a0 It will now be integrated into the AIC WordPress blog.\u00a0 Posts should be categorized as ECPN in the drop-down list.\u00a0 Tags are optional.\u00a0 At a later date, Ryan and Rachel will export the contents of the former ECPN blog at Blogspot, and import those posts into WordPress.\u00a0 Ryan will create a post on the ECPN Blogspot that notifies visitors that the blog has moved, with a link to the AIC WordPress blog.\u00a0 He will also provide a link from the new blog to the old for those who want to reference older posts, until the archives are migrated.<\/p>\n

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10. About the January Wiki Edit-A-Thon<\/strong> (Rachael) \u2013 Wiki was first populated with the catalogs developed by the various specialty groups.\u00a0 Several groups without printed catalogs then joined in.\u00a0 Paintings, Textiles, BPG, and PMG were first, with printed catalogs, so their Wikis have more of a traditional editorial structure than the others.\u00a0 Some groups have put up an outline showing the content they would like to see developed, and then look for people to populate it.\u00a0 Training is not difficult, but people interested in adding content are not interested in learning the interface.\u00a0 That is where ECPN can help \u2013 many members are comfortable with the interface, but may be less confident about creating entries.\u00a0 In January Edit-A-Thon, volunteers can post content that has been written and needs to be transferred to the platform.\u00a0 Rebecca Rushfield (FAIC Oral History Project) has material on past conservators that could be put up.\u00a0 Rachel can put volunteers in touch with the Wiki coordinator for your specialty group of interest, or you can work on exhibition standards, preventive care, or other topics that need \u201cextra fingers.\u201d\u00a0 Working on the Wiki can be a mini-mentoring opportunity, when experienced conservators have material and could be matched to an emerging conservator who would post it, and some interaction would be part of the process.\u00a0 The transferring and editing would be collaborative.\u00a0 Some common discussion threads could be posted for future reference (for example CIPP thread that recurs is one about what corporate structure conservators in private practice choose \u2013 LLC, S-corp, etc).\u00a0 Rachel has some threads that could be developed into Wiki content.\u00a0 An emerging conservator could be matched with a more experienced conservator to do this.\u00a0 ECPN will develop a list of volunteers with their area of interest and provide to Rachel so she can create some assignments.\u00a0 Molly indicated that this could tie in to the mentor-mentee projects list, so going forward, the Wiki could be something that mentor-mentee pairs could do together.<\/p>\n

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Next call: Monday, January 16, at 1 pm ET.<\/p>\n

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Respectfully submitted,<\/p>\n

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Amy Brost<\/p>\n

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