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<div>Greetings--</div>
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<div>SAA's Description Section (more or less equivalent to the RBMS Bib Standards Committee) has promulgated a survey to learn about staffing, policies, statistics, etc. relating to archival tech services work. The archivists in your institution may know about
it, but since cataloging questions are included, and that activity may be conducted within your cataloging units, I thought it worth forwarding to this listserv. </div>
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<div>Please forward to others in your institutions who may be interested in responding but are not in the listserv communications loop.</div>
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<div>The initial communication from Gordon Daines at BYU, who chairs the Description Section, is below.</div>
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<div>Best wishes, Jackie</div>
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<div>Jackie Dooley</div>
<div>Program Officer, OCLC Research</div>
<div>Liaison from RBMS to SAA</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><b>From:</b> "J. Gordon Daines <<a href="mailto:gordon_daines@byu.edu" style="color: purple; ">gordon_daines@byu.edu</a>>" via <<a href="mailto:description@forums.archivists.org" style="color: purple; ">description@forums.archivists.org</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> September 30, 2014 at 15:04:01 PDT<br>
<b>To:</b> "SAA Description Section Discussion List" <<a href="mailto:description@forums.archivists.org" style="color: purple; ">description@forums.archivists.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[description] Archival processing and cataloging survey</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> "SAA Description Section Discussion List" <<a href="mailto:description@forums.archivists.org" style="color: purple; ">description@forums.archivists.org</a>><br>
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<b>*****Apologies for cross-posting. Feel free to forward this survey to interested parties*****<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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The Description Section is conducting a survey to learn more about the arrangement and description practices and cataloging practices of archivists. The survey is available at<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M32LVBS" style="color: purple; ">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M32LVBS</a>.
The survey is aimed at two primary groups: 1) practitioners of archival arrangement and description and 2) catalogers. We would ask that only one person per category at a given institution participate in the survey. The survey will be available through November
14<sup>th</sup>, 2014. We look forward to seeing what we learn from the survey and hope to present the results at the Description Section meeting at SAA 2015.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">J. Gordon Daines III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Chair, SAA Description Section<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">(801) 422-5821<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="mailto:gordon_daines@byu.edu" style="color: purple; "><span style="color: blue; ">gordon_daines@byu.edu</span></a></span></p>
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