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At the Description Section business meeting, leadership will share election results, and provide updates on the section’s ongoing projects including the newsletter and revisions to the Section’s Standing Rules. A presentation on the progress of the Section’s portal of descriptive resources will follow. In addition, representatives from the SAA Technical Subcommittee on the new DACS Principles, the SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards, and the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project will provide updates on their ongoing work.
External Agency Liaison to SNAC, National Archives and Records Administration
I'm working as NARA's link to SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context), working with other SNAC partners to stand up this new data cooperative. I'm all about linking creators of archival materials together in context, and linking them all to their original archival collections... Read More →
Head of Special Collections & Archives, University of California Irvine
Audra Eagle Yun is the Head of Special Collections & Archives at the University, of California, Irvine where she supports a team of ten librarians and staff. She is the principal investigator for C-CAP TEACH, a 4-year initiative funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to cultivate... Read More →
Special Collections Technical Services Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sarah Jones is Special Collections Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received a bachelor's degree in history from UCLA in 2012, and a master's degree in library and information science from UCLA in 2017.
As the Digital Archivist at Notre Dame, I develop and implement policies, procedures, and workflows for records retention and the appraisal, ingest, and preservation of born-digital University records.
