Welcome to the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) workspace for committees!

For the main TARO finding aids page, please visit https://txarchives.org/home

For news, announcements, and other information, please visit TARO Today at https://sites.utexas.edu/taro/

TARO is governed by a steering committee composed of volunteers from archival repositories around Texas.

Steering Committee charge: Evaluate the needs of TARO as they relate to updating the site, by assessing current best practices, researching peer institutions, conducting user assessments and planning appropriate next steps.

2025 Steering Committee members:

• Chair: Katelin Dixon, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Katelin.Dixon@ttu.edu
• Secretary (2023-2024): Georgeanna Gaines, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, geogaine@ttu.edu
• At-Large Member (2025-2026, 2-year term): CJ Williams, Harris County Public Library, cj.williams@hcpl.net
• At-Large Member (2024-2025, 2-year term): Susannah Broyles, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, s_b623@txstate.edu
• At-large Member (2024-2025, 2-year term): Laney Chavez, Harris County Archives, Laney.Chavez@cco.hctx.net
• UT Libraries Representative: Aaron Choate, UT Libraries, achoate@austin.utexas.edu

• Immediate Past Chair: Matthew Richardson, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives, Northwestern University  

Steering Committee call schedule for 2024: every third Wednesday at 10am 

2024 Steering Committee members:

• Chair: Matthew Richardson, Texas Medical Center Library, matt.richardson@library.tmc.edu 
• Vice Chair: Katelin Dixon, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Katelin.Dixon@ttu.edu
• Secretary (2023-2024): Rachael Zipperer, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, rachael.zipperer@tpwd.texas.gov
• At-Large Member (2023-2024, 2-year term): Molly Tepera, UT Dallas McDermott Library, molly.tepera@utdallas.edu
• At-Large Member (2024-2025, 2-year term): Susannah Broyles, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, s_b623@txstate.edu
• At-large Member (2024-2025, 2-year term): Laney Chavez, Harris County Archives, Laney.Chavez@cco.hctx.net
• UT Libraries Representative: Aaron Choate, UT Libraries, achoate@austin.utexas.edu
• Immediate Past Chair: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas Libraries Music Library, Maristella.Feustle@unt.edu

Steering Committee call schedule for 2024: every third Wednesday at 10am 

TARO designates subcommittees for tasks and projects in the administration of the site:

2024 TARO Subcommittee chairs / co-chairs:

• Funding Subcommittee: Amy Bowman, Briscoe Center for American History, a.bowman@austin.utexas.edu 
• Governance Subcommittee:  Amanda Focke, Rice University, afocke@rice.edu 
• NEH grant management: Aaron Choate, Amy Bowman, and Carla Alvarez
• Outreach and Education Subcommittee: Robert Weaver, Texas Tech University, robert.g.weaver@ttu.edu
• Standards Subcommittee: Molly Hults, Austin History Center, molly.hults@austintexas.gov; Matthew Richardson, Texas Medical Center Library, matt.richardson@library.tmc.edu
• Summerlee QA Subcommittee: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas Libraries Music Library, Maristella.Feustle@unt.edu  
• Website and Technology Subcommittee: Elizabeth Garza, Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin, elizabeth.garza@austin.utexas.edu 
• Authorized Terms Subcommittee: Lisa Struthers, Chair (San Jacinto Museum of History, lstruthers@sanjacinto-museum.org)

Technical maintenance / TARO admin: 

UT Libraries, lib-taro@austin.utexas.edu

Quick links to key documents: 

• TARO EAD 2002 schema Encoding Best Practices Guidelines and template
• TARO Usage Statistics - TARO 2.0 (November 2021-present)
  
• TARO Usage Statistics - 2012-October 2021
  
• TARO collection development document including purpose, background, mission, vision, audience, project scope, participation criteria and more
• Governance Plan (revised - October 2020) 
• Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• NEH 2018 Implementation Grant Application 
• TARO Control Access: information about subject standardization work completed during the NEH implementation grant.
• Write comments to the general TARO listserv (taro-lib@utlists.utexas.edu) or directly to the co-chairs and project manager as noted above.

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