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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Please note that we continue to seek survey instruments! Please consider contributing by Friday, March </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>20th.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>In its efforts to learn more about how archives and special collections repositories are currently quantifying their holdings, the <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/groups/saa-acrlrbms-joint-task-force-on-holdings-metrics">SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries</a> is seeking <b>examples of survey instruments, worksheets, methodologies, etc.</b> that have been used to:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>* Provide a number for collections [of archival and/or manuscript material], titles [bibliographic units], and/or physical units held. Please include definitions and explanations if these are not apparent in the instrument.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>* Figure out how much physical space collections occupy</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>* Count any non-textual formats held, such as audio-visual materials</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>* Determine extent for born-digital material</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Please be assured that survey instruments submitted will be shared with Task Force members only. If you have surveyed your holdings within the last ten years, and have an instrument you are willing to share, please send it to Emily Novak Gustainis (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:Emily_Gustainis@hms.harvard.edu">Emily_Gustainis@hms.harvard.edu</a><span style='color:black'>), Co-chair, ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries, by <b>Friday, March 20, 2015</b>. We are also interested in learning more about repositories that have had difficulties conducting holdings surveys and/or have opted not to participate in a survey.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Emily R. Novak Gustainis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Learn more about JTF-HCM: <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/groups/saa-acrlrbms-joint-task-force-on-holdings-metrics">http://www2.archivists.org/groups/saa-acrlrbms-joint-task-force-on-holdings-metrics</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Emily R. Novak Gustainis<br>Head, Collections Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Center for the History of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Harvard Medical School<br><span style='color:blue'><a href="mailto:emily_gustainis@hms.harvard.edu">emily_gustainis@hms.harvard.edu</a></span> / 617.432.7702 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://www.countway.harvard.edu/chom">Website</a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> / <u><a href="https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/">Blog</a></u> / <u><a href="http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/">Omeka</a></u> / A partner in the <u><a href="http://www.medicalheritage.org/">Medical Heritage Library</a></u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>