November 18, 1999
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Present: Michael Hopper (Harvard), Chris Murphy (LC), Jonathan Rodgers (Michigan), Simon Samoeil (Yale), James Simon (CRL), Dona Straley, James Weinberger (Princeton)
Guests: Beverly Gray (LC), Joanne Zellers (LC)
Absent: David Hirsch (UCLA)

1. Introduction. No formal agenda. Most of time to take a look at future of MEMP, what are we doing, what should be doing, and what are our goals for the future.
2. Introduction of James Simon, CRL Program Officer.
3. Ask group to review agenda for general meeting. Questions? Matters to be disposed of now?
4. Ask group to review minutes from 98. Leading to the following topic.
5. Future of Global Resources Project. Ask Simon to report. Establish a committee again to formulate proposal.
6. Future of MEMP

1. Our relationship with LC
2. Financial prospects
3. Our relationship with other projects or possibility of cooperative projects International Coalition on Newspapers, Library of Congress, Arabic Press Archive, individual member institutions, national libraries, outside funding agencies, international universities [UK, European, etc]
4. MEMP "White" Paper
   i. History
   ii. Progress
   iii. Status Quo
   iv. Future
   v. Recommendations

DS take stock going in the directions. JS important to know in broad strokes what we have done, what we might do (e.g. filming personal collections).

DS examine MEMP cost. If we raised membership fees to x amount, then what could we do?

Zellers was asked to relate her experiences with CAMP. JZ - Nairobi proposes title for filming, James Howard, long proposals, whether to put on agenda, official reports. Written report which included a list of purchases. New Delhi office filming Africana related titles. From Nairobi or LC. E-mail quite a bit. Proposals shared. If LC buys something, if LC buys something more than $1000 then justification has to be written. Executive committee frequently communicates by e-mail. Microform collections. Microfilm collections different. University of Florida has an active newspaper program. DRUM magazine.

SS - increase e-mail. CAMP institutions talk about what they have bought or why not. Finding aid not good.

MH - Have you had a problem of duplication of effort? If they have it we should have it, in other cases too expensive I can spend my money elsewhere.

Consider micropublishers. JR microfilming projects have their commercial complements. Direction we want a certain finding aid.

VII. Other business

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