With apologies for cross-posting:

Description Training Day
Date: Thursday, 11 March 2004
Venue: The Meeting Place, 153 Drummond Street, London NW1 2PB
Cost: £129.25 per participant (incl. VAT at 17.5%)

This course is intended as a more detailed follow-up to the
Introduction to Description offered in the Basic Archive Skills
Introductory Course. It is aimed at people processing and
describing archives who wish to gain more practical training as
well as those managing archives who are about to embark on new
processing and description projects.

The day begins with an overview of processing and finding aids and
continues with more focused sessions on archival description using
current standards, retrospective conversion and networking finding
aids. There will be workshop sessions on arrangement techniques
and implementing description standards.

The course fee of £129.25 (incl. VAT) includes a course handbook
with supporting notes and useful sources for further information.
The price also includes lunch (with vegetarian option; please let
the directors know if you have any other special dietary needs)
and tea and coffee.


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  Programme Time Session
      9.15-9.30 Registration and coffee
      9.30-10.00 Introduction and Overview of the Day
      Janet Foster, TASC
      10.00-11.00 Finding Aids: an overview of archival processing
      Margaret Crockett, TASC
      11.00-11.15 Coffee
      11.15-12.15 Using Description Standards
      Speaker to be confirmed
      12.15-12.45 Networking Descriptions: current trends and
future opportunities
      12.45-1.00 Discussion
      1.00-2.00 Lunch
      2.00-3.15 Workshop Session 1
      3.15-3.30 Tea
      3.30-4.45 Workshop Session 2
      4.45-5.00 Discussion and closing remarks

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APPLICATION FORM

Send to: TASC, May Cottage, 1 Fountayne Road, London N16 7EB or
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Or fill in your registration form on-line at:
http://www.archive-skills.com/training/2004/11-3appl.php



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