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.

 

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. For additional information, contact Christine de Catanzaro, 404/385-0107 or [log in to unmask].

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