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Repair, Restore, Reimagine: Reparative Archival Description Forum

  • 1.  Repair, Restore, Reimagine: Reparative Archival Description Forum

    Posted Oct 21, 2021 04:30 PM

    Join the Yale Reparative Archival Description Working Group for a public forum focused on reparative archival description on Tuesday, November 9 from 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern time. This virtual event will include panel presentations, a round of lightning talks, and a series of facilitated breakout discussion groups.

    Over the past several years, reparative description has come to the forefront of professional discourse in the archival field. Many organizations have grappled with harmful language and content in their collections using a variety of methods, including adding harmful language statements for users of discovery systems, revising or contextualizing harmful language, initiating collaborative projects with communities and other heritage institutions, and reconsidering how digitized materials with harmful language or content should be presented in digital discovery environments.

    The forum aims to bring together a community of practice to discuss the goals, challenges, and future of reparative archival description. What does it mean to repair? How can we restore trust and respect with communities, creators, and collections without obscuring the ways archives and archivists have been inadequate in creating accurate and inclusive description? How can our vision and methods be proactive, collaborative, and imaginative rather than reactive, siloed, and limited?

    This event is free and open to anyone who is interested in archives. Registration is required, please register here

    Panel speakers:

    Jackson Huang, Digital Collections and Content Ingest Coordinator, University of Michigan

    Ricky Punzalan, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information

    Margery N. Sly, Director of Special Collections Research Center, Temple University

     

     

    For the Yale Reparative Archival Description Working Group,

     

    Stephanie Bredbenner (she/her)

    Processing Archivist

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

    Yale University

    203-432-3196

    stephanie.bredbenner@yale.edu