Description Section Meeting Agenda for 2002

I. Welcome from the Chair

II. Reports from SAA Committees and Liaisons

EAD Working Group - Kris Kiesling
US MARC Advisory Board (MARBI) - Michael Fox
ICA Committee on Descriptive Standards - M. Fox
SAA Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS) - Lynn Holdzkom
OCLC - Susan Westberg
RLG - Anne Van Camp
RLG EAD Advisory Group - Dennis Meissner
ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) - Susan Hamburger

III. Section Reports

Descriptive Notes - John Rees
Section Web Site - Diane Ducharme
Finding Aids Fair - Brad Westbrook

IV. Ongoing Business

Section-sponsored sessions on the 2002 program - Mary Lacy
Ideas for 2002 program sessions - Brad Westbrook
Amendment of bylaws (adding Coker Awards subcommittee service to duties of Chair)

V. New Business

VI. Election of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (results announced at the end of the program)

VII. Program

Jean Dryden, Editor and Project Manager of the Canadian/U.S. Taskforce on Archival Description (CUSTARD) project update, will give a presentation on the work of the CUSTARD project to date, including its recently published "Statement of Principles", available at: http://www.archivists.org/news/custardproject.asp