Reparative Description Advanced Topics

Certificate Eligibility: 
A&D
Credits: 
1 ARC
Format: 
Webcast
Tier: 
Transformational
Description: 

This three-webinar (each approximately 90 minutes in length) series will touch on various aspects of reparative description work, presented by archivists engaged in that work. The first session focuses on two projects related to the incarceration of Japanese American citizens during the second world war. Archivists involved in these projects reflect on their individual projects and provide a comparative perspective to see what variables can impact project decisions and to reinforce the notion that there are multiple ways to resolve issues. The second webinar focuses on one institution’s implementation of a reparative framework across their collections, including pragmatic approaches to policy development, procedures, workflows and documentation for the review and revision of legacy description. The final webinar focus is on a strategy for assessing your reparative description initiative. This will include an overview on the Maturity Model for Reparative Description created by Stephanie Luke and Sharon Mizota and will conclude with a conversation between presenters on how an adaptation of this model can be used to address challenges and opportunities in reparative description initiatives.

Learning Outcomes: 
Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:
Understand the challenges that archival materials offer to the reparative description of legacy description and metadata.
Formulate strategies for creating and remediating descriptive metadata for objects with outdated language or sensitive subject matter and promote long-term sustainability of this work through holistic reparative approaches.
Discuss real-world examples of descriptions of historical materials to identify approaches to making metadata more representative of and sensitive to the communities depicted in materials.
Effectively promote institutional reparative metadata work through outreach efforts.
Consider strategies for assessing reparative description initiatives underway.
Who Should Attend: 

Librarians and archivists who want to delve deeper into discussions and strategies for repairing harmful descriptions of materials.

What You Should Already Know: 

Highly recommended prerequisite, Reparative Description: Fundamentals#mce_temp_url#

A&D Core Competency: 
3. Descriptive Standards: Apply rules and practices that codify the content of information used to represent archival materials in discovery tools according to published structural guidelines.
5. Discovery: Create tools to facilitate access and disseminate descriptive records of archival materials.
6. Ethics: Convey transparency of actions taken during arrangement and description and respect privacy, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity of archival materials.
7. Risk Management: Analyze threats and implement measures to minimize ethical and institutional risks.
If you intend to pursue the A&D Certificate, you will need to pass the examination for this course.
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