2026-03-17 UAC Meeting agenda and notes

2026-03-17 UAC Meeting agenda and notes

March 17, 2026 12pm ET/ 11am CT/ 10am MT/ 9am PT

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@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster (Chair)

@Dalton Alves

@Joanne Archer

@Susannah Broyles (regrets)

@Christine Di Bella (Ex-Officio, Program Manager)

@Elizabeth Delmage

@Bo Doub

@Kelly.Francis

@Matthew Gorham

@Greenwood, Amanda Lynn (qkv8sr)

@Regine Heberlein (Ex-Officio, TAC Chair)

@Barbara Ilie

@Mary Kidd (regrets)

@David Krah

@Kelly Kress

@Noah Lasley

@Ryan Lee (regrets)

@Heather Lember (Vice-Chair)

@Christine Liebson

@Jaime Margalotti

@Brianna McLaughlin (regrets)

@Michelle Paquette (Ex-Officio, TAC Vice-Chair)

@Nick Pavlik

@Kolbe Resnick

@Evalyn Stow

@Karen Trop

@Lindsay Wittwer

 

Goals

  • Update members on UAC activities including activities of sub-teams

  • Discussion:

Notetaker

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Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

10 mins

Attendance ice breaker

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

Name, where you work, how long have you been on Council, which sub-team(s) you are on

Icebreaker: Favorite drink

2 mins

UAC Updates

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

  • Volunteers for vice-chair, sub-team vice-leads

8 mins

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella



10 mins

Sub-team Reports

 

 

 

Development Prioritization

@Dalton Alves

  • Looked at 14 tickets at our March Meeting: 12 tickets passed; 2 awaiting more information.

  • Next meeting: April 7, 12pm EST - all welcome to join ticket discussions.

 

Member Engagement

@Christine Liebson

  • Hosted First Friday on 3/6 and Mixer on 3/10 focusing on the ArchivesSpace PUI, continuing to summarize and post resources to the Member Match Slack channel

 

Testing

@Heather Lember

Testing Team wrapped up regression testing for 4.2, using our updated regression testing conditional statement worksheets. Martha facilitated 3 working sessions, and led the main effort to get Testing to the finish line.

 

Usability

@Noah Lasley

  • Met last week and finalizing session content for Virtual Member Forum next week: “Usability Subteam Update: Proposal for Surfacing Back-End Configuration Settings”, please attend if interested!

 

Users Documentation

@Elizabeth Delmage

  • Continue to respond to suggestions and comments in the User Manual

  • Revising User Manual pages in reponse to release of 4.2

  • Looking to standardize sub-teams workflows with Airtable

15 mins

Discussion: Location manager module

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

  • Do you use this module in your institution?

  •  How do you use it?

  •  What do you like about it?

  •  What would make it better?

  • Is there anything specific you ‘d like to know about it?

2 mins

Next Steps

 

  • Next meeting: April 21, 2026 at 12pm ET/9am PT/10am MT/11am CT

    • Featured module: Accessioning

  • Registration is now open for the 2026 ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum, March 25-26, 2026