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NAMEPOSITION/AFFILIATIONEMAILPITCHPOSSIBLE COLLABORATORS (include your name, email, what you would bring to this session)
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Annalisa MorettiProject Archivist/Houghton Library, Harvard University
annalisacmoretti@gmail.com
This session would be about preparing guidelines for and writing inclusive archival description. It would tackle describing collections concerning people of color, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQ people, and other marginalized groups, as well materials which might be racist, ableist, sexist, and/or homophobic/transphobic. Creating guidelines for how to research and better describe these materials creates a consistent basis for inclusive description, helps to ensure that these materials don’t go undescribed, and guides the clean-up of outdated description containing potentially problematic or offensive language.Annalisa Moretti, annalisacmoretti@gmail.com - Creating best practice guidelines for description of disabled entertainers in Harvard Theatre collection, as well as possibly other descriptions of disability. Betts Coup, elizabeth_coup@harvard.edu - considering consicous and inclusive description when doing minimal processing work.
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Jordan MeyerlRecent graduate from UMass Boston
(no current affiliation/position)		jmeyerl1295@gmail.com--This session would discuss rapid-response archives and their associated challenges. It would discuss issues of setting standards for processing, metadata, tagging, teaching the materials in the archive, access to materials, addressing and filling archival silences, outreach, and more. These archives have been used in various tragedies (Hurrican Katrina, COVID, Australian Bushfires, Virginia Tech etc.), and while there has been much discussion of the successes, it would be helpful to talk about the challenges that arise when setting up these archives to help others who may want ot set up a rapid response archive in the future. Other sessions in the past have discussed the importance of getting started and how to set up, but few have discussed the challenges that are faced once the initial set-up has occured. Strategies to address and approach long-term challenges in maintaining rapid-response archives will be the focus of this session.Jordan Meyerl, jmeyerl1295@gmail.com: I am a curator with A Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive. This archive has addressed a lot of these issues and as a curator I have seen a lot of them dealt with first-hand. We could also see about bringing in other collaborators from Northeastern as part of this session.
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