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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">This descriptive work can take many forms, including:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><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 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
<b>by Monday, February 28, 2022.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">If you have questions, you can contact Marcella Huggard, subcommittee chair, at
</span><a href="mailto:mdwiget@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">mdwiget@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">The C.F.W. Coker Award Subcommittee:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Marcella Huggard, subcommittee chair</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Catherine Howell</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Brigette Kamsler</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Katherine Madison, SAA Description Section Chair</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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