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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear ArchivesSpace members,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to report on the ArchivesSpace Governance Board 3rd Quarter meeting, which was held in Chicago on March 13th. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We were pleased to welcome:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Heather Heckman, Pennsylvania State Archives, who is serving the remainder of Alston Cobourn’s term as the representative for the small member category. (Alston accepted a new position for an institution that is not in that category, and left the board in December.) </p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Bill Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is serving in the place of John Wilkin while John serves as interim provost at UIUC.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We reviewed the continued excellent work of the Technical Advisory Council and User Advisory Council--and thanked the members for their dedicated participation. The operations update we received highlighted the good progress by development partner Hudson Molonglo (HM) and the work the program is doing to build policies and infrastructure for further community participation in development. We also discussed the progress on implementation of the Communication and Engagement Plan over the last year and made suggestions for further efforts in this area.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The board approved:</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>appointments to the Nominating Committee, chaired by Gerald (Jay) Gaidmore, who will announce the committee membership when he sends the call for nominations</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>the formation of several subcommittees to update the foundational documents in light of our now well established program and governance, including the ArchivesSpace mission, bylaws and organizational home agreement and </p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>a resolution in honor of Brad<span style="color:#1f497d"> Westbrook</span>’s dedication and founding work on behalf of ArchivesSpace. The text of the resolution is available on the ArchivesSpace website at: <span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://archivesspace.org/resolution-honoring-bradley-westbrook-founding-archivesspace-program-manager/">http://archivesspace.org/resolution-honoring-bradley-westbrook-founding-archivesspace-program-manager/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We also approved a Fiscal Year 2018 budget.<b> </b>Last year the board approved spending reserve (net asset) funds to drive additional development. As the planned need to expend reserve funds was largely unnecessary this year due to the timing of staffing vacancies (i.e., salary savings were available for the additional development work), the board approved using the reserve funds next year to enable us to capitalize on development momentum and continue to make accelerated progress with the application. As part of our efforts toward greater communication, the ArchivesSpace program will produce an annual report later this year that will include financial information.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In closing, I am very happy to report that the ArchivesSpace membership organization is vibrant and is growing at a steady rate. Members are participating in all facets of the program and continue to be its strongest assets and advocates. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The Board welcomes your communications and comments to any and all of us, and we extend our thanks to all of you for your continuing support and ongoing contributions to the community we have created. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Respectfully,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Carol A. Mandel</p><p class="MsoNormal">Chair, ArchivesSpace Governance Board</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dean, Division of Libraries, New York University</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>