The Descriptive Notes editorial team is pleased to announce a new publication in our ongoing Inclusive Description series.
In "Launching a Guide: Inclusive and Reparative Archival Description at Tulane University," members of the Inclusive and Reparative Descriptions Working Group at Tulane University provide an overview of the process of creating and launching reparative description guidelines at the university.
Read it here: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/launching-a-guide-inclusive-and-reparative-archival-description-at-tulane-university/
Descriptive Notes is currently soliciting posts for an upcoming series on Audiovisual Description.
Does your institution collect audiovisual materials? What descriptive tools, standards, and/or processes do you use to describe these materials for researcher access or collections management? What particular challenges do audiovisual material pose for archival description? Descriptive Notes is looking for articles, announcements, case studies, and other posts related to the how, what, and why of audiovisual description at your institution to share with our readership.
Posts may consider themes such as: the differences between describing paper materials and audiovisual materials, including identification; developing institution-specific standards for audiovisual description or the implementation of professional standards to an institution; the challenges of describing an intellectual arrangement of materials that is different from physical order; the differences in describing published and unpublished audiovisual media in catalogs and finding aids… and more!
Submit your pitches to saadescription@gmail.com. You can read more on our submission guidelines here: https://saadescription.wordpress.com/guidelines/
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Katherine Madison
Lead Editor, Descriptive Notes
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