Description Section 2024 Annual Meeting

DESCRIPTION

The meeting will include a recap of 2024 Section business, updates on ongoing projects, and news about upcoming Description Section Steering Committee elections. In addition, representatives from SAA Council, the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS), the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), and Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) will provide updates on their groups' ongoing work.

The meeting will conclude with a panel discussion on the topic of project management and archival description:

• Renae Rapp (CCNY Archives & Special Collections) will discuss processing manuals as tools for project management.
• Cathy Dorin-Black (NC State University Libraries) will outline the tools (Trello, Google sheets, and Google forms) used to track processing projects.
• Natalia Gutierrez-Jones (Loyola University Chicago) and Benn Joseph (McCormick Library & University Archives at Northwestern University) will clarify the steps in their processing workflow, accounting for the many people and tools involved from start to finish.

RECORDING
This meeting will not be recorded.


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This free event is open to all. Registration required for virtual security.

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