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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Do you know anyone who has been working on a great description project? Consider nominating them for SAA’s C.F.W. Coker Award. More information is
available below. Please feel free to contact me with any questions at </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:suzanne.reller@uc.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">suzanne.reller@uc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Take Care!<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Greetings, colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Happy New Year! Please help us identify archivists and groups of archivists who have made valuable contributions to our profession over the past year by submitting
nominations for the <b>C.F.W. Coker Award</b>, which is awarded annually to an individual or group who have performed outstanding and innovative archival descriptive work.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">This descriptive work can take many forms, including:</span><o:p></o:p></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 style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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 style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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 style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><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><a href="https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/45800-Society-Of-American-Archivists"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">form</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">:
<b>by February 28, 2021.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">For more information about the C.F.W. Coker Award please visit:
</span><a href="https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">If you have questions, please contact Suzanne Reller, subcommittee chair, at
</span><a href="mailto:suzanne.reller@uc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">suzanne.reller@uc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">. Technical problems with the application form can also be submitted
to SAA at </span><a href="mailto:awards@archivists.org"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">awards@archivists.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Thank you, everyone, for your consideration and time.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The C.F.W. Coker Award Subcommittee:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Suzanne Reller (chair)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Katherine Duvall</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Marcella Huggard</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Brigette Kamsler</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Suzanne Reller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reference/Collections Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Archives and Rare Books Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Cincinnati<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 513-556-7016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: suzanne.reller@uc.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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