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Hello, all. It was wonderful to see so many of you in New Orleans! I think I can speak for all of us who were there that a good time was, indeed, had by all! It was heartbreaking to see the devastation wrought upon that wonderful city by Katrina, merely days after our departure. Our hearts go out to our New Orleans and Gulf Coast colleagues along with our best wishes for a non-arduous recovery. Fifty of us attended the STHC meeting on August 18. The minutes from that meeting will be posted on the Website (http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/sthc/index.html), so keep your eyes open for those. I would like to thank Joe Anderson for the wonderful job he did this year as Senior Co-Chair of the STHC Roundtable and his two years of serving as Co-Chair. He made us all look good! Joe is now Past Chair and remaining on the Steering Committee. I would like to welcome Janice Goldblum as incoming Co-Chair; her enthusiasm and follow-through will also make us look good! We say good-bye and thank you for jobs well done to Juliet Demeter and Dharma Akmon, who are rotating off Steering Committee. We welcome Suzie Long, who is coming on and whose track record on behalf of the STHC Roundtable is impressive. The updated listing of Steering Committee members and contact information will be on our website and has been submitted to SAA. I wish to give hearty thanks to Jean Deken, Russell Long, and Lisa Mix for their amazing job in creating a new STHC Leadership Handbook. This document, which will be available on our website, will be of great use to present and future STHC leaders. I am already grateful for, and have made use of, the Handbook. It is a model for other roundtables and sections. Looking ahead to the very near future: Session proposals are due to SAA on Friday, October 7!!!!! I know we have at least one or two proposals in the works and that several others may be in the embryonic stages. I would like to encourage everyone to use this listserv as a forum for discussing session proposals. SAA Program Committees also regard more favorably those session proposals that have a broad, more interdisciplinary appeal. SAA Program Committees only look favorably on session proposals that are complete: all speakers have been contacted and have agreed to speak. If some session proposals are missing speakers, others on this list may be able to propose candidates for inclusion in the session. Steering Committee members review session proposals coming from STHC, so a complete proposal, with the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed, needs to be completed and submitted to STHC Steering by September 30. If we use this listserv to share ideas, there should be no surprises in terms of crafting solid, complete proposals. The STHC Roundtable has a very good record in terms of the number of proposals accepted in relationship to the number submitted. Let’s try to keep the bar high this year! Joan Echtenkamp Klein STHC Roundtable Co-Chair Joan Echtenkamp Klein Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator of Historical Collections and Assistant Professor for Medical Education Claude Moore Health Sciences Library University of Virginia Health System P.O. Box 800722 1300 Jefferson Park Avenue Charlottesville, VA 22908-0722 434-924-0052; FAX 434-243-5873; jre@virginia.edu www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/ ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2005 Message Index |