12:45-2:15 pm - Friday, August 27
Session 20, "Standards for Encoding of Digital Archival Objects." Chaired
by Kris Kiesling.
Session 26, "Web Sites, Electronic Finding Aids, and the Archival Researcher."
Chaired by Susan Hamburger.
2:45-4:15 pm - Friday, August 27
Session 28, "Tobacco, Human Radiation Test, and Asbestos Litigation:
The Impact of Current Events on Archives Programs."
Proposed by Susan Hamburger and endorsed by the Manuscript Repositories
Section and the Technical Subcommittee on
Descriptive Standards.
8:45-10:15 am - Saturday, August 28
EAD Roundtable
Do you have an unusual (or typical) finding aid that addresses the challenge of contemporary records? Perhaps an old-fashioned 1940s multipage typescript of box lists/folder lists of the early stages of mushrooming modern records generation? Or maybe what you think is the latest in technology in trying to meet the challenge of the now ever-burgeoning critical mass of modern records? Can these finding aids measure up to the user demands placed on them? How well do they really work, and are we making progress in using our resources to create finding aids that do the job?
Show and share your stuff with other archivists at the 1999 SAA Finding Aids Fair! Compare and comment with other archivists as you browse finding aids that address the demands of contemporary records.
If you have a finding aid you would like to share with others at the FAF, please contact:
Holly Hodges
Special Collections Librarian
T. Cartter and Margaret Rawlings Lupton Library
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Phone: 423.785.2186 or
E-mail holly-hodges@utc.edu