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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Remember to submit your nominations for the <b>C.F.W. Coker Award</b> <b>by Monday, February 28</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">The C.F.W. Coker Award is awarded each year to an individual or group who have performed outstanding and innovative archival descriptive work. This descriptive work can take many
forms, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-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-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#464646;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-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-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#464646;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-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-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#464646;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-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-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">If you are aware of innovative work in any of these areas, please consider submitting a nomination (self-nominations are welcome!) via our nomination <a href="https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/45800-Society-Of-American-Archivists" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00A6B8">form</span></a><b>. </b>Individuals
who submitted nominations last year for work completed in 2021 that did not receive the 2021 Coker award are encouraged to re-nominate!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">For more information about the C.F.W. Coker Award please visit: <a href="https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00A6B8">https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02);text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">If you have questions, please contact Marcella Huggard, subcommittee chair, at <a href="mailto:mdwiget@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00A6B8">mdwiget@gmail.com</span></a>.
Technical problems with the application form can also be submitted to SAA at <a href="mailto:awards@archivists.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00A6B8">awards@archivists.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Thank you again for your consideration and time.<br>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">C.F.W. Coker Award Subcommittee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Marcella Huggard, subcommittee chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Catherine Howell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Brigette Kamsler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646">Katherine Madison, SAA Description Section Chai<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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