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Reminder: UX Practitioner Series Kick-off with Adam Prumm

Posted By Betts Coup Feb 24, 2026 04:25 PM
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Dear all, Please remember to join us for the first presentation in our UX Practitioner Conversation Series. Are you working on a user experience related project in your archives? Are you interested in gathering insights about your users to help improve your services? Or are you new to UX and interested ...

Descriptive Notes: call for posts on AI & Description

Posted By Betts Coup Feb 23, 2026 04:53 PM
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Descriptive Notes is soliciting submissions for an upcoming series on AI and archival description. Our hope is to provide space for conversation and multiple perspectives on the topic of AI and description. With this in mind, we are looking for folks to contribute 200-300 words on the development and/or ...

Incorporating Crowd-Sourced Community Feedback Into Descriptive Metadata of Digitized Photographs: a new Visual Materials Description post in Descriptive Notes

Posted By Betts Coup Feb 19, 2026 04:53 PM
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Descriptive Notes is pleased to share a new post from Andrew Lippert about crowd-sourcing description of photographs by Jay Kay Klein, science fiction enthusiast whose collection is held by the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside. You can find the ...

UX Practitioner Conversation Series: Adam Prumm, March 6 at 1 PM EST

Posted By Betts Coup Feb 17, 2026 04:45 PM
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Dear all, Mark your calendars for the first presentation in our UX Practitioner Conversation Series. Are you working on a user experience related project in your archives? Are you interested in gathering insights about your users to help improve your services? Or are you new to UX and interested in ...

New Post in Descriptive Notes: A Steering Share from Chair, Max Goldberg

Posted By Betts Coup Jan 27, 2026 04:27 PM
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Dear colleagues, Descriptive Notes is pleased to share a new post from the Description Section Steering Committee Chair, Max Goldberg, outlining the activities of the Section so far this year - and looking ahead to future events and efforts. You can find the blogpost here: https://saadescription.w ...

New post in Descriptive Notes: Descriptive Challenges with Technical Drawings and Audiovisual Objects

Posted By Betts Coup Jan 15, 2026 04:39 PM
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Dear colleagues, Descriptive Notes is pleased to share a new post focused on the challenges of describing technical drawings and audiovisual objects by Rebecca Gordon. You can find the blogpost here: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/descriptive-challenges-with-technical-drawings-and ...

Descriptive Notes: call for posts on AI & Description

Posted By Betts Coup Jan 07, 2026 04:29 PM
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Descriptive Notes is soliciting posts for an upcoming series on AI and archival description. Are you using AI as a tool for archival description? If so, what specific work are you attempting/accomplishing with it? What have you found to be the benefits and challenges? If you've chosen not to use AI ...

Descriptive Notes: New Post introducing the RiC Wikibase Sandbox

Posted By Betts Coup Dec 08, 2025 04:52 PM
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Dear colleagues, Descriptive Notes is pleased to share a new post from out Section Updates series, an introduction and welcome to the RiC Wikibase Sandbox by its creator Regine Heberlein. You can find the blogpost here: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/learn-ric-by-doing-introducing ...

Describing Form and Feeling: a new Visual Materials Description post in Descriptive Notes

Posted By Betts Coup Nov 17, 2025 04:49 PM
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Dear colleagues, Descriptive Notes is pleased to share the first post in our new Visual Materials Descriptions series, a thoughtful perspective piece by Hannah Ledyard, archivist at the Bertoia Foundation. You can find the blogpost here: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/describing-f ...

Call for submissions: AI & Description for Descriptive Notes

Posted By Betts Coup Nov 10, 2025 04:39 PM
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Descriptive Notes is soliciting posts for an upcoming series on AI and archival description. Are you using AI as a tool for archival description? If so, what specific work are you attempting/accomplishing with it? What have you found to be the benefits and challenges? If you’ve chosen not to use AI ...

Ramification of DEI Shifts in Higher Education on Reparative Cataloging Activity

Posted By Betts Coup Nov 06, 2025 04:34 PM
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[Apologies in advance for any cross-posting] Hello everyone, Our names are Soojeong Herring, the Metadata Manager at Northeastern University, and Tiffany Henry, the Metadata & Institutional Repository Librarian at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. We are working on a research project to ...

Introducing DadoCM: A New Post on Descriptive Notes

Posted By Betts Coup Oct 20, 2025 05:07 PM
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Dear Colleagues, Descriptive Notes is pleased to share a new post: Introducing Delivering Archives and Digital Objects: A Concept Model (DadoCM) by Greg Wiedeman. The authors discuss the development of this new model as a response to the challenge of describing and providing access to digital materials. ...

Descriptive Notes: call for posts on Description of Visual Materials

Posted By Betts Coup Oct 16, 2025 04:42 PM
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Descriptive Notes is soliciting posts for an upcoming series on the Description of Visual Materials. Does your institution collect visual materials? What descriptive tools, standards, and/or processes do you use to describe these materials for researcher access or collections management? What particular ...

New Post in Descriptive Notes: Efforts in Reparative Description: Community Listening Sessions at the University of Minnesota Libraries

Posted By Betts Coup Sep 22, 2025 04:32 PM
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The Descriptive Notes editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of a new post in our ongoing Inclusive Description series. In "Efforts in Reparative Description: Community Listening Sessions at the University of Minnesota Libraries," Theresa Berger and Kate Dietrick discuss the University ...

Descriptive Notes: call for posts on Description of Visual Materials

Posted By Betts Coup Sep 08, 2025 09:50 AM
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Descriptive Notes is soliciting posts for an upcoming series on the Description of Visual Materials. Does your institution collect visual materials? What descriptive tools, standards, and/or processes do you use to describe these materials for researcher access or collections management? What particular ...

Register now for the SAA Description Section Annual Business Meeting!

Posted By Betts Coup Jul 14, 2025 04:42 PM
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Dear colleagues, The Description Section Steering Committee is happy to announce the Section’s Annual Business Meeting agenda and open registration. The meeting will be held Friday, July 25, from 2 PM-3:30 PM EDT. Held virtually, the meeting will include reflections from the Steering Committee ...

Register now for the SAA Description Section Annual Business Meeting!

Posted By Betts Coup Jun 30, 2025 04:51 PM
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Dear colleagues, The Description Section Steering Committee is happy to announce the Section's Annual Business Meeting agenda and open registration. The meeting will be held Friday, July 25, from 2 PM-3:30 PM EDT. Held virtually, the meeting will include reflections from the Steering Committee ...

New Post in Descriptive Notes: Videotape Identification for Audiovisual Description and Preservation

Posted By Betts Coup Apr 08, 2025 04:24 PM
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The Descriptive Notes editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the first post in our newly launched Audiovisual Description series. In "Videotape Identification for Audiovisual Description and Preservation," Libby Hopfauf of Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and Seattle ...

New Post in Descriptive Notes: Indigenous representation and inclusion: Central Michigan Universities Libraries Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description Project

Posted By Betts Coup Mar 10, 2025 04:34 PM
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The Descriptive Notes editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of a new post in our relaunched Inclusive Description series. In "Indigenous representation and inclusion: Central Michigan Universities Libraries Critical Cataloging and Reparative Description Project," Gabriella Stuardi and ...

Reminder & Format of Visual Materials/Description Collaborative Conversation (2/4/25)

Posted By Betts Coup Jan 30, 2025 04:14 PM
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Dear colleagues, The votes are in – the collaborative conversation on the description of visual materials will be focused on two topics: 1) The similarities and differences between archival description and visual materials description and 2) Reparative descriptive with a focus on how it applies in the ...