It has been really fun serving you these past few months as your Archives Chair. I have been settling into this position and have been focusing on how I can be a part of supporting our Area’s needs. The main component of fulfilling my responsibilities as Archives Chair is to maintain open communication at all levels. I have been chairing the Archives Steering Committee (ASC) meetings once a month where we have great discussions about how we can best serve you and receive feedback from each other on our current projects. I have been traveling out to Districts to present about archives and inform them that there is support available from our ASC for their archival needs. Our Archivist and the 6 members of our committee have been working on various projects that preserve how we have carried the message of recovery in Area 72. The work ranges from preserving historical documents to organizing our digital archives. The goal is to make the information available to others in various ways.
Two ways we make our archives available to the Area is through presentations and traveling displays at events. I am excited about our upcoming events and presentations. I will be traveling out to Districts 58, 21, and 34 to present on district archives. Our steering committee will be taking a traveling display to the Capital Jamboree out in Olympia on June 6th-7th. The ASC will also be taking the traveling display to Step Ashore in August. We also have more exciting events planned for the Fall. In September District 31 will be hosting a historical presentation that will be facilitated by our Archivist Maryland. We will also be hosting the Regional Archives Workshop in October. This is where Area 58, 72, and 92 come together to present on various topics relating to archives.
There is so much more I can write about however, I will save that for next time!
Yours in Service,
Jennifer R.
