Society of Georgia Archivists Workshop

(co-sponsored with Society of American Archivists)

 

DESCRIBING ARCHIVES: A CONTENT STANDARD

June 13, 2006 

8:30-5:00

 

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY -- LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER

Want practical strategies for implementing DACS? This is the
introductory workshop for you! 

Practical DACS Implementations - get an in-depth, practical
consideration of the key concepts and descriptive elements in Describing
Archives: A Content Standard, the new U.S. standard. Explore strategies
for incorporating this standard into workflows for accessioning,
arrangement, and description through discussions and hands-on work with
a variety of exercises, culminating in a DACS-based analysis of existing
finding aids. This workshop, a basic introduction to the standard,
focuses on application of DACS rules and concepts, which participants
can apply to repository processes and descriptive outputs. 

Workshop fee includes the new SAA publication Describing Archives: A
Content Standard 

Who should attend? Anyone whose work includes accessioning, arranging
and describing, or supervising employees who do that work. 

Instructor: Kelcy M. Shepherd (M.L.I.S., Simmons College) is the Five
College Project Archivist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She is currently an analyst and Five College liaison for the Archivists'
Toolkit project, an effort to develop an open source software
application for managing archival information. Kelcy led a collaborative
MARC and EAD retrospective conversion project for the Five Colleges,
improving access to over 1,000 archival collections by making their
finding aids and catalog records available online. With Waverly Lowell,
she co-authored Standard Series of Architecture and Landscape Design
Records:  A Tool for Arrangement and Descriptions of Archival
Collections, winner of the 2001 C. F. W. Coker Award of SAA. She is a
continuing education instructor and adjunct professor for Simmons
College, has served as chair of SAA's Description Section, and she is
currently a member of SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive
Standards.

 

 

 

Cost:  SGA is able to offer its membership SPECIAL PRICES for this
excellent workshop:

 

*         SAA offers SGA members who are not SAA members a $25 discount
off the non-member price of $235 ($275 after 5/14/2006). To take
advantage of this price, be sure to write "SGADACS" in the promotional
code space in the online application. 

 

*         SGA offers its members a $100 rebate off either the SAA
non-member or member price (SAA member price is $185 early-bird; $225
after 5/14/2006) to the first 15 SGA members who register for this
workshop. To take advantage of this offer, notify the Education Chair,
Christine de Catanzaro (404/385-0107, or [log in to unmask]), when
you have applied online.

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Archival Recertification Credits: 5 credits.

 

For Hotel/Travel/Parking Information, and To Register: Registration is
available online at: 
http://www.archivists.org/prof-education/workshop-detail.asp?id=1676
<http://www.archivists.org/prof-education/workshop-detail.asp?id=1676> .
For additional information, contact Christine de Catanzaro, 404/385-0107
or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . 



Enrollment is limited, so REGISTER EARLY FOR SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES!

 

 

 


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