[DCRM-L] SAA survey on archival processing and cataloging policies

[Dooley,Jackie]

Greetings--

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.

Please forward to others in your institutions who may be interested in responding but are not in the listserv communications loop.

The initial communication from Gordon Daines at BYU, who chairs the Description Section, is below.

Best wishes, Jackie

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Jackie Dooley
Program Officer, OCLC Research
Liaison from RBMS to SAA

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From: "J. Gordon Daines <gordon_daines at byu.edu<mailto:gordon_daines at byu.edu>>" via <description at forums.archivists.org<mailto:description at forums.archivists.org>>
Date: September 30, 2014 at 15:04:01 PDT
To: "SAA Description Section Discussion List" <description at forums.archivists.org<mailto:description at forums.archivists.org>>
Subject: [description] Archival processing and cataloging survey
Reply-To: "SAA Description Section Discussion List" <description at forums.archivists.org<mailto:description at forums.archivists.org>>

*****Apologies for cross-posting. Feel free to forward this survey to interested parties*****

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 athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M32LVBS. 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 14th, 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.

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J. Gordon Daines III
Chair, SAA Description Section
(801) 422-5821
gordon_daines at byu.edu<mailto:gordon_daines at byu.edu>



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