57th Council of Voting Members Annual Meeting

Event Logistics

Date: 
Friday, April 28, 2006
Contact: 
Don Dyer - ddyer@crl.edu

The 57th annual meeting of the Center’s Council of Voting Members was held on Friday, April 28, 2006.

Thursday, April 27

5:30pm-7:30pm

Reception and Cocktails

The speaker was Kathleen D. Morrison, Director of the Center for International Studies, at the University of Chicago.

Kathleen Morrison earned her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992. She is Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College and studies the archaeology and historical anthropology of South Asia with a focus on pre-colonial and early colonial South India. Her interests include state formation and power relations in South Asia, agricultural intensification as a general historical problem, colonialism and imperialism, landscape history, and the integration of archaeological, historical, and ecological analysis. She was appointed Director of the CIS in 2003.

Dr. Morrison is editor of Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Friday, April 28

8:00am

Business Meeting & Continental Breakfast

  • Chair’s Report
  • Secretary’s Report
  • Review and Approval of the New
  • Membership Model
  • Review and Approval of the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget
  • Election of New Board Members
  • President's Report

10:15am

Break

10:45am

CRL Forums

The Global Resources Network
Presenter: James Simon, CRL Director of International Resources
Expanding the scope and diversity of sources materials available to North American scholars

E-CRL
Presenter: Bernard F. Reilly
Mapping an effective strategy for integrating digital technology and networks in CRL operations and services

12:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Adjourn

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”