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Register for SAA archival cataloging workshop in Durham, March 2009

What? MARC According to DACS: Archival Cataloging to the New Descriptive Standard
Where? Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Durham, NC
When? Wednesday, March 11–Thursday, March 12, 2009, 9am-5pm (Spring SNCA meeting is Friday March 13, same location!)
Instructors: Kathy Wisser and Lynn Holdzkom, both of UNC-Chapel Hill

Co-sponsored by the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA), and the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke.

Description: An archivist who currently creates or anticipates creating cataloging records for archival collections won't want to miss this extensive two-day workshop. Besides a review of the most common MARC fields used in archival cataloging, the workshop also contains information about the relationship between archival MARC and Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), full MARC 21 coding, and a subject analysis and authority work as they apply to archival cataloging.

For more information and to register, visit the SAA website.

SNCA members and Duke Library staff quality for a $25 discount off the non-SAA-member rate. You must enter a discount code on the form. Please contact Adina Riggins, Tim Pyatt, or a member of the SNCA Program Committee to request this discount code!

This discount will be processed manually by SAA staff. Check your credit card charges a few days after you have sent payment to ensure that the discount has been applied correctly.

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