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5-7 Committee History

Standing Committees are those committees that provide essential services to the Society. Permanent committees are established by the Bylaws or by the Board to cope with the ongoing tasks of the Society. While the Chair rotates and the tasks evolve, these groups generally function over many years. Standing Committees and their selection are described in Bylaws VI.1-2 (See also the current version of The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure by Sturgis).

This history is to be updated as information surfaces from SCA archives or other sources.

Advocacy and Public Policy

Committee established in 2020 to succeed Government Affairs Committee, which was discontinued at the same time

Committe charge and name changed in 2022 to Labor, Advocacy, and Public Policy Committee

Automation

Committee discontinued in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Awards

Committee created in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Communications & Outreach

Committee formed in 2017 due to merger of Electronic Communications Committee and Outreach & Publicity Committee

Conservation

Committee discontinued in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Development

Education

Education – Vice Chair for Online Education

Election

Electronic Communications

Established in 2012 to succeed Web Site Committee, which was abolished at same time.

Merged with Outreach & Publicity Committee in 2017 to create Communications & Outreach Committee

Ethics and Inclusion

Established in 2019 upon recommedation of the Task Force on Professional Ethics and Inclusion.

Finance and Investment

Government Affairs

Discontinued in 2020; became Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Labor, Advocacy, and Public Policy

Committee established in 2022 to succeed Advocacy and Public Policy Committe

Local Arrangements

Membership

In 1995, a Board Member-at-Large was assigned to be Membership Director, duties include chairing committee

Membership – Vice Chair for Member Activities

Newsletter

Committee was subsumed into Publications in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Nominating (Chairs)

Nominating (Elected members)

(Listing compiled, retrospectively, in 2015. Information incomplete)

Outreach and Publicity

Merged with Electronic Communications Committee in 2017 to create Communications & Outreach Committee

Preservation

Committee discontinued in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Program

Publications

Newsletter became part of Publications in 1991/2 at recommendation of the Task Force on Committees

Site Selection

Committee discontinued after 2020 reconfiguration of Local Arrangements Committee

Web Site

Initial web site created by Paul Wormser and Dennis Bitterlich in 1998 Committee established 2006

Committee succeeded by Electronic Communications Committee in 2012

Western Archives Institute Joint Management

WAI On-Site Coordinator

On-Site Coordinator superseded by WAI Program Coordinator when WAI moved into online format in 2021

WAI Program Coordinator

WAI Management Committee Chair

WAI Associate Administrator

WAI Site Selection

Revision history: 5/93 jab, 4/10 lo, 7/12 tep, 5/14 tep, 01/2017 llc, 06/2017 llc, 10/2017 llc, 06/2018 llc, 04/2019 llc, 05/2019 llc, 01/2022 ck, 03/23 lm

  1. Section 5-7 Committee History
  2. Part 5 History
  3. Handbook of the Society of California Archivists