Present: Executive Committee, Peter Malanchuk (U Florida), chair; James Simon (CRL), CRL representative; Edward Miner (U Iowa), secretary; Jill Coelho (Harvard) vice-chair/chair elect; Laverne Page (LC), LC representative; Marieta Harper (LC), ALC chair; Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), past chair.
Guest: Elizabeth Darocha Berenz (CRL).

• Each Executive Committee member who is an ex-officio member of one of the six newly created subcommittees needs to convene their subcommittee so that a permanent convener may be selected. Bell-Gam will compile a list of volunteers for each subcommittee and send it to the Executive Committee, and then the general membership. Berenz will set up CRL Intraspect folders for each subcommittee (she is on the Executive Committee e-mail list).

• Simon has been asked to resend information about Intraspect (how to use it) to the general membership. People who are not official CAMP representatives can be on the CAMP listserv but cannot access the CAMP Intraspect workspace. Bell-Gam cautioned that anyone who is invited to serve on a subcommittee but who is not an official CAMP representative needs to have access to the relevant subcommittee space on Intraspect. Simon said that such people can access the general CAMP listserv archive on Intraspect. Bell-Gam will look at attendance lists from the last couple of years to see who such people are as should be able to see Intraspect threads.

• In Ghana, Bell-Gam will explore possibility of project at PRAAD and will report back to CAMP.

• At ESARBICA meeting, Bell-Gam and Coelho will pursue discussion with Joel Tembe of the National Archives of Mozambique, and report back to CAMP.

• Simon will follow up with Coelho on the Harvard monetary commitment to the Mozambique project.

• Page is going to Angola in July—so will share info about any needs of archives she runs into there.

• Simon will kick off action on the Courrier d’Afrique project, first consulting with LC about their holdings. He will also kick off action on Eastern Nigeria Guardian project. Page will follow up with LC about what they are going to film from Hadas newspaper.

• Baumann will coordinate the submission of a CRL purchase proposal for the complete German Colonial Archives microfilm collection.

• Simon has not heard from the ANC about the O.R. Tambo papers. He will follow up on it, and Bell-Gam will help if necessary.

• Simon will order Friend from the National Library of South Africa

• Simon will order the Monitor (1993-1995) from the University of Florida.

• Steere will send Simon a list of the short runs that he has for possible microfilming. They aren’t necessarily camera ready.

• The main reason Bell-Gam is going to Senegal is to visit the Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba archives at Touba (Sufi capital of Murids). Bell-Gam and Allen Roberts have been invited to look at the material (mostly late-19th to early-20th century) and have a discussion with them about possible preservation. They are thinking that it would be an opportunity to pull together related materials for preservation. Bell-Gam will also look into utilizing the expertise at the Senegalese National Archives for accomplishing this preservation.

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