Also, I've been informed by people in the field that SAA has come out with a new standard for cataloging archival collections called DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).  The pdf version is available at http://www.archivists.org/DACS.pdf.  Just be careful.  It's 217 pages!!!
 
-Martin Firestein
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