In this Tip Sheet, Robert Baron summarizes his discussion with Kathleen Masterson, NYSCA Literature Program Director, on the New York Folk Arts Roundtable and how the literary field can benefit from their example use of self and peer assessment, from Facing Pages: A Statewide Literary Convening, June 3, 2005. Robert Baron has served as the Folk Arts Program Director at NYSCA since its establishment in 1985. He was also Folklore Administrator of the National Endowment for the Humanities while on leave from NYSCA (2000-20001); the Director of NYSCA's Museum Program (1996-2000) and a museum educator at The Brooklyn Museum from 1977-79. Baron is a Non-Resident Fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He served as President of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association. In 2002, Baron received the Benjamin A. Botkin Award for Outstanding Achievment in Public Folklore from the American Folklore Society, and in 2005 he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Finland. His publications include Public Folklore, ed. with Nicholas R. Spitzer (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992).