Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collections #0148

Registration Type

Fees: Early-Bird / Regular

Full Registration #0148

SAA Member $285 / $365 Employees of Member Institutions $325 / $375 Nonmember $365 / $415 If you work for an archive, library, museum, or other cultural heritage organization in Florida, you are eligible for free registration for this workshop, sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access. If so, please do not register through this site, but instead contact John Nemmers (jnemmers@ufl.edu, 352-273-2766) for more information on free registration.

Workshop Agenda

Event Name	Date & Time	Instructors/Speakers & CEUs
Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collections #0148	Thu, Mar 18, 2010 - Fri, Mar 19, 2010 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Pam Hackbart-Dean (Instructor) Susan Potts McDonald (Instructor) Archival Recertification Credits-ARCs: 10 General CEU Credits: 1.5

Workshop Description

Day One: The Patterns of Arrangement

Day Two: The Craft of Description

This workshop focuses on the day-to-day decisions you're making in arranging and describing manuscript collections! That includes developing processing work plans, identifying common arrangement schemes for particular types of collections, as well as physically organizing materials during processing. Pinpointing the essential elements of a finding aid, applying descriptive standards, and creatively constructing container lists will also be highlighted.

Upon completion of this workshop you'll be able to:

• Understand the concepts and principles of arrangement;
• Figure out how to arrange various types of manuscript collections and formats;
• Identify the essential elements of a finding aid;
• Discuss the application of archival descriptive standards; and
• Demonstrate an understanding of best practice.

Who should attend? Novices and seasoned archivists who want to learn more about processing manuscript collections effectively and efficiently.

Workshop fee includes the new SAA publication: Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) by Kathleen Roe (a $49 value!).

Responses to "what aspect of the workshop was most valuable to you?" included:

• "Clear explanation of archiving arrangement and description, and willingness to clarify and answer questions." - Judy Ellis
• "Aspects on arrangement - [I] always had problems with poorly arranged collection and how to fit it." - Monica Blank
• "Excellent review, with new knowledge acquired. I found the entire workshop interesting and useful. If I had to choose most useful aspect[s], some would be the review of archival principles and practices, experiences of instructors and participants and ideas for way to better handle real-life issues." - Valerie Anne Lutz
• "Instructor's experience and knowledge and willingness to address questions, excellent. The handouts and PowerPoint were very valuable as they provided good structure for discussing and instruction. Bibliographic lists good too. Excellent refresher and very current." - Brian A Hoduski
• "Everything! I especially like the sample worksheets and electronic tools that the speakers are using at their own institution. VERY HELPFUL!" - Rona Razon
• "I liked that the nitty gritty details of processing were covered. This is the sort of class I wish I had in library school."

Attendance is limited to 35.