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the drafting of a resolution to be presented to the SAA Business meeting. Members approved the resolution and the Task Force on
Minorities was created. Thomas Battle was appointed as the chairman, with Diana Lachatanere invited as the SAA representative for the Joint Committee on Minority Recruitment. In 1984, she was elected to the Nominations Committee and was appointed to the Membership Committee.
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roundtable. Diana served as co-editor and prepared the first two newsletters for the roundtable and helped to set an agenda for the group. The roundtable held its first meeting in
September 1987 at the annual SAA conference in New York City. This meeting brought a structure for the roundtable that continues today, including the process of electing two co-chairs, with one being elected every year.
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The idea came out of the session "Minorities and the
Profession: An Agenda for Action," (1981) chaired by Harold Pinkett, where Lachatanere was a panelist. After the session, archivists including Archie Motley, Thomas Battle, John Fleckner and Danny Williams, began to talk about next steps, including
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Among the issues that the Task Force recommended was the creation of a membership committee. Lachatanere stated in the same interview, "the reason why we were pushing a membership committee is because then, out of the membership committee you could put together a recruitment program that could
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meeting was in 1978 when the meeting was held in
Nashville, TN. Ann Allen Shockley, the librarian and archivist at Fisk University, had served on the Program committee and shepherded several sessions which included African American panelists. During the conference she invited "all of us,
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Task Force on
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African American Documentation Initiatives: Needs, Opportunities and Next Steps," Assessing the History and Future of African American Documentation Initiatives Conference co-sponsored by the State Historical Records Advisory Board of North Carolina and North Carolina Central
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Paper, "The
Schomburg Center". A National Conference on Black Museums Interpreting the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the Bethune Historical Development Project, the National Council of Negro Women and the African American Museums
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In 1987 the task force ended with the recommendation that a minorities' roundtable be formed. Council approved the motion and the
Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable was established later that year, with Diana Lachatanere and Carol Rudisell serving as the initial coordinators for the
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In 1980, she started at the
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all of the young, people of color to her house for dinner ... She made it very clear that this was the first time the
Society had had this number of black people there." However, it wasn't until 1981 that a roundtable was created specifically for minorities in archival work.
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in 2013, where she held the position of assistant director for Collections and Services from 1995 to 2013, and Curator of the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division from 1988 to 2013. She was also the Manager of the Scholars-in-Residence Program, 1990–2013.
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Lachatanere began her career in archives and libraries in 1976 with the California Historical Society in San Francisco. Starting as a processor, she became the Assistant Manuscripts Librarian in 1978 while also earning her MLS degree.
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Scholars-in-Residence Program. While managing collections at the Schomburg, she assisted in the planning of Center-wide exhibitions and co-authored/ supervised National Endowment for the Humanities funded processing grants.
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Panelist, Remaking the Past to Make the Future: "From Community Archives to International Research Center," Beyond Silence: Meaning and Memory in the Noise of Haiti's Present, Bard College, 2010
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Paper, "A National Perspective for African American Archives," Margaret Walker Alexander: A Twentieth Century Voice from the South, A National Symposium and Poetry Festival, 2000
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Panelist, "Developing Local Black Archives." A National Conference on Local Afro American History, sponsored by the National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, 1982
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Paper, "African Libraries Documenting the Global Black Experience," Africana Libraries and Resources in the Information Age, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2001
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Adamczyk, Alice; Helton, Laura E.; Mims, Miranda; Murphy, Matthew J. "Library Archaeology: Reconstructing a Catalog of the Arthur A. Schomburg Book and Pamphlet Collection".
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Paper, "The Source: Literary Research and Collections," Panel: Literary Research, Documentation and Archival Activity, Organization of Women Writers of Africa, 2004
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Paper, "How to Maintain a Local Church Archive," How Firm a Foundation: A Conference on Local Church History, African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1993
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