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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Greetings, colleagues!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">It is that time of the year where we ask for your help to identify archivists and groups of archivists who have made valuable contributions to our profession. As a part of these efforts,
we are looking for nominations for the C.F.W. Coker Award, which is awarded annually to an individual or group who have performed outstanding and innovative archival descriptive work.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">This descriptive work can take many forms, including:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Finding aids: including, among others, multi-institutional guides, record surveys, repository guides, special subject lists, finding aids to individual collections or records groups, and narrative descriptions of
holdings.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Finding aid systems: including, among others, manual or automatic indexing systems, computer databases, or current awareness systems for notifying users of holdings.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Descriptive tools that enable archivists to produce more effective finding aids: including, among others, subject thesauri, authority files, data element dictionaries, manuals establishing descriptive standards,
and such reference works as atlases and administrative histories.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Projects that involve innovative developments in archival description: including, among others, cooperative ventures that result in the exchange of finding aid information among repositories, efforts at building
national information systems, and survey projects.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">If you are aware of innovative work in any of these areas we ask that you please consider submitting a nomination (self-nominations are welcome!) via our nomination
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/45800-Society-Of-American-Archivists"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">form</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">:
<b>by February 28, 2020.</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">For more information about the C.F.W. Coker Award please visit:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">If you have questions, you can contact Linda Sellars, subcommittee chair, at lwsellar@ncsu.edu.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Thank you, everyone, for your consideration and time.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The C.F.W. Coker Award Subcommittee:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Linda Sellars (chair)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Marcella Huggard</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;background:white">Suzanne Reller</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Cyndi Shein</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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