Description Section
Summer 2008 Descriptive Notes now online!
Please note: this issue contains the current draft of the revised section bylaws and a request for nominations to section leadership positions. Comments and nominations are due by July 25.
Reports from SAA Committees, Liaisons, and Related Groups:
DACS Working Group: report by Chair Bill Landis.
EAC Working Group: report by Chair Kathy Wisser.
ALA's Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access: report by SAA Liaison Mary Lacy.
ICA Committee of Best Practices and Standards: report by SAA Liaison Claire Sibille.
2 RLG/OCLC reports by RLG Program Officer Merrilee Profitt: RLG Work Agenda Highlights and RLG OCLC Transition Highlights.
OCLC update by OCLC's Susan Westberg: News from OCLC.
Canadian Committee on Archival Description: report by Gerald Stone of Library and Archives Canada.
Also: Powerpoints from the EAC presentations at the 2007 annual meeting are here.
The SAA Description Section provides a forum for the exchange of
information and ideas about all aspects of archival description among those
responsible for, involved in, or interested in description projects, descriptive
standards, and descriptive systems.
Membership in the Description Section is open to any member of the
Society of American Archivists (SAA) with an interest in archival description,
descriptive standards, or descriptive systems. For information on joining the
section, please contact Member Services Coordinator Jeanette
Spears.
The Description Section publishes a semiannual newsletter, Descriptive
Notes.
Information on the 2006 Finding Aids Fair, provided by Jane Rosario
Information on the 2005 Finding Aids Fair,
provided by Katherine Wisser.
For some links to information and documentation on descriptive standards,
see our Descriptive Standards page.
Society of American Archivists
Description Section
Web Liaison | Diane Ducharme
Created | 30 January 2004
Last Updated | 14 July 2008
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