The
Descriptive Notes editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the next piece in our Specialized Description series.
In
"The Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Queer Archiving and the Fluidity of Language," Bianca Finley Alper, Isaac Fellman, and Megan Needels of San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society discuss the creation of an in-house controlled vocabulary and confront the difficulties of cataloging an inherently fluid terminology.
Read it here:
https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/the-uncontrolled-vocabulary-queer-archiving-and-the-fluidity-of-language/Descriptive Notes is currently seeking submissions for our Favorite Finding Aids series, which celebrates the art and method of archival description. Do you have a finding aid that presented a particular descriptive challenge, an opportunity for collaboration, or perhaps a test of new descriptive guidelines? Is there a finding aid that you find innovative, stylistically elegant, or particularly well-researched? We want to hear about it! Read about our editorial and submission guidelines here, or reach out to the team at saadescription@gmail.com. We also welcome submissions on topics related to our existing series - such as Conference Dispatches! - and to all issues related to archival description.
Happy reading!
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Katherine Madison
Lead Editor, Descriptive Notes
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