The overall goal as guiding principal is opportunistic and designed to enable MEMP to get what it can when it is available for filming. The concept of centrality of access rather than general ownership should also guide MEMP's activities. MEMP should leap on the opportunity presented by the Dayan Center. SAMP has purchased portable camera and in the Fall will film personal papers, i.e., materials other than newspapers. For example, color that is not captured on microfilm images of cartographic text, etc.
Preservation filming vs. digitization reformatting is an as yet unresolved issue.
External factors, scholarly idiosyncracies, interests, competition, etc., all influence MEMP's directions of collection development. There should be a MEMP weblink on the MELA site or on individual sites. CRL leadership is interested in area studies and in pursuing grant possibilities along the lines of MEMP's goals and activities. MEMP needs to be kept informed on LC filming activities in cooperation with CRL and vice versa. New Business and future directions were discussed, including collection directions, ATC's efforts in Georgia, Armenia, Central Asia to supply newspapers on film, Princeton's filming of Jumhuri Islami and Risalah .