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Descriptive Guidelines and Principles
Style Guides and Harmful Language Statements
Case Studies
- Reparative Processing: A Case Study in Auditing Legacy Archival Description for Racism (Kelly Bolding, Princeton University)
- Implementing Reparative Description for Indigenous Collections (Panelists: Rose Buchanan, Selena Ortega-Chiolero, Nathan Sowry, Eric Hung, Monique Tyndall, Rachel Menyuk, Diana Marsh)
- “Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks for Herself: Identifying 1,257 Married Women by Their Full Names” (Celeste Brewer)
- “Toward Culturally Competent Archival (Re) Description of Marginalized Histories” (Dorothy Berry, Kelly Bolding, Annie Tang, Rachel E. Winston)
- Every Step You Take: Practical Steps for Inclusive & Reparative Description (Betts Coup)
- Spark a Conversation on Metadata Inclusiveness (Sai Deng, University of Central Florida)
- Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill (Jackie Dean, UNC Chapel Hill)
- “Identifying Culturally Sensitive American Indian Material in a Non-tribal Institution (PDF)” (Ellen M. Ryan, Idaho State University)
- Reparative Archival Description Working Group: ArchivesSpace Agents Reparative Task Force for Women’s Names (Yale University)
Theoretical Articles and Presentations
- Redescription as Restorative Justice (Tonia Sutherland, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
- Sunshine State Digital Network: Introduction to Conscious Editing Series (Panelists: Dorothy Berry, Kelly Bolding, Laura Hart, Meghan Rinn, Holly Smith)
- RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description (Jarrett M. Drake, Princeton University)
- “Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices” (Lae’l Hughes-Watkins)
- “Truth and Reconciliation: Archivists as Reparations Activists” (Anna Robinson-Sweet)
- “Review of Advocacy and Awareness for Archivists“ (Elizabeth D. James)
- “The Right to Know: Decolonizing Native American Archives” (Jennifer R. O’Neal)
- “The Power of Words: Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description” (Jessica Tai)
- Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice (Randall C. Jimerson)
- “Critical Archival Studies: An Introduction” (Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, T-Kay Sangwand)
- “A Weapon and a Tool: Decolonizing Description and Embracing Redescription as Liberatory Archival Praxis” (Tonia Sutherland and Alyssa Purcell)
- “The House Archives Built” (Dorothy Berry)
- “Archival interventions and the language we use” (Kirsten Wright)
- Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in the Archives: An Incomplete List of White Privileges in Archives and Action Items for Dismantling Them (PDF) (Grace Brilmeyer, UCLA)
- “We Need These Bodies, But Not Their Knowledge: Black Women in the Archival Science Professions and Their Connection to the Archives of Enslaved Black Women in the French Antilles” (Kellee E. Warren)
- Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice (Rachel L. Frick and Merrilee Proffitt)
- “The Platinum Rule Meets the Golden Minimum: Inclusive and Efficient Archival Description of Oral Histories” (Weatherly A. Stephan)
- “An Exploration into Archival Descriptions of LGBTQ Materials” (Erin Baucom)
- “Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P.T. Barnum Digital Collection” (Megan R. Rinn)
- Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory (Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight)
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