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NameEmailPresentation typeTitle (if you have one, can be tentative)Topic(s)Other interested folks (include name, contact, affiliation)
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Colleen Theisencolleen-theisen@uiowa.eduFlexible, and we could do in-person or virtualSocial Media since 2020. (I don't like this title particularly, but it gives you the idea)Juli Mcloone, Sean Heyliger, and Nikki Thoms in 2013 published "Making Connections: A Survey of Special Collections' Social Media Outreach. Colleen Theisen joined the team to re-launch the survey in 2013, and the survey data indicates a difficult landscape for staffing social media in the post-pandemic, Twitter-meldown era (I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the idea). I'd like to report on that data (with any of the colleagues above who are able to make it to the conference) such as staffing and workflow changes since 2020, shifts to working with marketing departments, and adapting to the wild changes to the platforms like Twitter. We have compelling testimonials about burnout, which could be highlighted if needed. It would be great to partner with others who have case studies from your organizations to report on specific changes you have seen since 2020, either positive, negative, or neutral. I've found in general that people working on social media don't realize their struggles might be part of a systemic pattern, rather than an individual struggle, so I would like to pair with specific case studies could really help our community not feel so alone in their struggles, if they are facing any in this area of work. Always nice to hear the success stories too! * Gaby Hale, ghale3@emory.edu, Emory Univeristy's Rose Library (I began in my role in January 2023, which includes managing 3 social media platforms for Rose Library. I am happy to talk about my experiences diving into social media post 2020, but I didn't work in my current role then). * Rebecca Bakker, rbakker@fiu.edu, Florida International University (I manage the Digital Collections social media and have been experimenting with the use of generative AI in creating content for the past few years, with varying levels of success and failure.) *Emily Beran, emilyberan@cornell.edu, Cornell University Library (I manage the social media for the Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell. Like Gaby, I began my role after 2020 but would be happy to talk about how our strategies/process look different with the changing landscape of socials these days. Also, discuss questions about how to balance visibility/promotion when you have a lot of collection areas consider and draw from.) *Caelin Ross, Arizona State University, caelin.ross@asu.edu --I've had a great experience at my institution with developing social media and am happy to share success stories, including student led content
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Julie Judkinsjulie.judkins@oregonstate.eduDiscussion Session or PanelEthics and obligations of archiving misinformationWhile misinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda aren't new (there's evidence of misinformation dating back to the Roman period), their influence on politics and world events have been much discussed recently. But little has been written about best practices for archiving misinformation or misinformation's impact on the archival profession. What strategies should archivists use to provide access to misinformation? What ethical obligations exist? I'm interested in connecting with others who either are collecting and describing challenging materials or who have decided not to so that we can explore the ethics and obligations of archiving misinformation. Given the conference theme, we might focus on misinformation related to colonial powers or colonialism and/or how reparative description might combat misinformation.Wilhelmina Randtke, wrandtke@georgiasouthern.edu , 850-345-6123 (I would love to phone call or screenshare and have a conversation to explore a submission. I have background in webscraping, metadata management including marking up deprecated materials with a more recent version and labeling racist and otherwise offensive materials in historical archies, and in law.);
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Kristen Keegandrknkeegan@gmail.comPaper? Panel? Roundtable?So what if it's not originals?For almost 20 years, A. Scholar's team collected photostats of documents from across the world. Initially this was towards publication, but Scholar kept on even after funding for that fell through. After Scholar's death, these and other papers (80 boxes of them) were given into the care of An Archive. Thirty years after that, An Archive's current head wishes to dispose of the photostats, organizational notes, transcripts, biographies of people mentioned in the documents, indexes, Scholar's proposed introduction to the material, etc. "It doesn't even belong in an archive." Discuss.Queries to possible folks sent. Any thoughts here? Sue Luftschein, luftsche@usc.edu. I have lots of thoughts about this topic that I would love to share! Elizabeth Ray, College Archivist, elizabeth.ray@ic.edu, Illinois College - The collecting here currently does have multiple collections with copies, including photostats, xerox copies, etc. Is there interest in the donation of digital copies of materials, too, and not the original? Jessica Gavilan, jessicagavilan@nypl.org, New York Public Library - Have many thoughts on a very similar topic!
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Genevia Chamblee-Smithge_curator@txstate.eduPaper, PresentationPeer Mentoring as a Super Power: How Resident Librarians/Archivist Achieve Mastery When you completed your graduate degree, did you make plans to become mobile for a job? Or were you geographically stuck with life responsibilities? I would like to share my experience in creating a virtual group of Resident Librarians/Archivists (2022). Although the 30+ individuals work in different states, our common bond was learning and doing library/archival work. Many of the Residents were not guaranteed permanent positions. Some of my group mates will share the benefits of peer mentoring and additional advise that made their archival Resident experience successful. The theme for this year is a "Multitude of Stories". Here we will share stories about the residencies, helpful skills to obtain a permanent job in special collections.Ima Oduok, ioduok@rockarch.org, Rockefeller Archive Center. Mimosa Shah, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. NO LONGER ACCEPTING PRESENTERS.
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Anastasia Armendarizajarm@uci.eduDiscussion SessionCountering Colonialisms in Instruction and OutreachHow do we highlight rare and distinctive collections materials for our users while acknowledging and resisting harmful contexts and structures that ensured their preservation in our care, if not their creation? How might these approaches shift from in-person teaching to exhibit curation to social media? How do you interrogate collections with questionable provenance, or center community-based and/or post-custodial collecting outside of your institutional walls? What are ways we seek to transform relationships between materials and users, whether on a group or individual level? Case studies, questions, and curiosity welcome. Traci Robison, trobison2@unl.edu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Joshua Youngblood, jcyoungb@uark.edu, University of Arkansas; Sam Regal, sregal@ucsc.edu, UC Santa Cruz; Sara Borden, borden@rowan.edu, Rowan University; Julia Rossi, jr30@williams.edu, Williams College; Sarah McLusky, University of Michigan; Amna Abdus-Salaam, aa10579@nyu.edu, NYU Special Collections, Ana Ramirez Luhrs, luhrsa@lafayette.edu, Lafayette College; Finch Collins, collinsf@lindahall.org, Linda Hall Library NO LONGER ACCEPTING PRESENTERS
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Erin LaBoveerin_labove@radcliffe.harvard.eduPanel PresentationNot a title - Tips, considerations, and research strategies for cataloging published materials that are more niche Presentation that would be 2-3 people doing a session on how to catalog a specific, somewhat niche type of item. I work on a large number of community cookbooks and would love to do a mini how to catalog these talk as there are specific cataloging issues related to them. Pairing with another cataloger or two would be ideal. Anyone working on artists' books or zines or any other published type of item that requires a slightly different approach for cataloging basically.
Sasha Frizzell, SFrizzell@binghamton.edu, Binghamton University (recataloging non-published, archival scrapbooks (DCRMMSS) -- so may be out of scope!); Maria Gorbunova, mg1172@princeton.edu, Princeton University (cataloging children's books for special collections)
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Libby Hertensteinhertenstein.9@osu.eduPanel PresentationSpecial Collections Materials in ILS MigrationsWhat are the unique challenges in preparing special collections and rare mateirals for ILS migrations? How are special collections and rare materials catalogers participating in the migration process. What do you wish someone would have told you before you began the migration process?Laura Doublet, lauradoublet@uvic.ca, University of Victoria, B.C.
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Victoria Jonesvjones@fgcu.eduPanel PresentationgThis panel would consist of 2 to 4 presenters discussing ways that they have democratized the learning process by co-creating instruction or internships with students. In doing so, these practitioners will have critically considered how flattening the inherent power structure in teaching or mentoring students has changed of affected their work. Questions that the presentation may consider: What was the impetus for this change? How have you implemented this process? What have been some of the successes and challenges?
Panel is complete. Nina Mamikunian: nmamikunian@ucsd.edu, UC San Diego Archive for New Poetry; Autumn Johnson autumnjohnson@georgiasouthern.edu Georgia Southern University's Special Collections; Marissa Caico marissa.caico@oswego.edu SUNY Oswego Archives & Special Collections
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Tellina Liu (McGill University)
Anna Dysert (McGill University)
tellina.liu@mcgill.ca
anna.dysert@mcgill.ca 		Panel presentationSmall stories of change: Building reparative archives incrementally The call for reparative work and inclusive representation in archives has been heard by the archival profession at large, however many archivists face barriers—limited resources, insufficient infrastructure, a lack of political or institutional will—that prevent them from implementing wide-scale changes to collecting and describing materials. This session aims to feature examples of small, sustainable actions that archivists can take to move toward more inclusive, reparative practices, even in challenging environments. By sharing case studies of "small wins," this panel hopes to highlight how incremental change can be both effective and impactful, offering constructive and encouraging ideas for those who want to make a difference without the ability to launch sweeping projects. Speakers will focus on how we can incorporate diverse stories into our archival practices and institutions through the smaller, more incremental tasks that are essential to making archives more accessible and equitable over time. jacqueline.c.contreras@sjsu.edu
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Maggie Dwenger (University of Arizona); Alba Fernandez-Keys (University of Arizona)mtdwenger@arizona.edu albafernandez@arizona.eduPanel presentation (but flexible)TBDHow do you prepare faculty to introduce the use of distinctive collections in their classes? How can librarians/archivitsts build relationships with faculty and co-create instructional sessions? How can librarians/archivists work with faculty/instructors to create sessions that apply a culturally relevant approach? Looking for collaborators who can speak on their experience teaching the teachers and building relationships with faculty. Vinny Barraza, Head of Archives & Special Collection @ Xavier University of Louisiana (vbarraza@xula.edu). We presently hold sessions in the Archives, led by the Head of Instruction, in which we invite faculty and their classes to learn about how to research using primary/secondary resource materials, and use our archival collections as examples.
Julie Tanaka, Associate Dean for Distinctive Collectionsm University of Washington (jktanaka@uw.edu). Extensive outreach work with faculty over my career at 4 institutions; communication to align instruction possibiltiies with curriculum and to meet learning objectives; consideration of how to offer different approaches of engagement and judicious selection of materials to be inclusive.
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Emilie Hardman (ITHAKA)emilie.hardman@ithaka.orgPanel presentationNot a title but -- something around AI and the complexities of it as a new colonizing force, as well as a potentially/sometimes countervailing or corrective for metadata enhancement and increasing equitable accessMaybe my "not title" covers it! To add some detail though, I am interested in presenting on utilizing AI experimentally for an open access collection on HIV, AIDS, and the Arts, exploring in particular the ways that profound grief, collectives, activism, and agit prop are challenged by descriptive traditions rooted in colonial structures that often force material meaning into predefined categories that obscure their specificities and erase their emotionality. I'm curious about the affordances of AI to surface some of this and to help users connect with materials in different way, though, also certainly skeptical about where and how AI can be responsibly used. Curious if there are other presentations that might go along well with these areas of inquiry.
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