Grand Challenge in the Archives: Exploring Bias through Experiential Learning

Considerations of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility can inform and enhance all aspects of archival work, even and especially our most challenging. When tasked with creating a new course for the University of Rhode Island’s General Education Program, I focused on how to engage students from various disciplinary backgrounds with archives on a deeper level. The result is Bias: Interrogating the Archive (LTI 350G), which debuted in fall 2021. While based on my ongoing work on bias and silences in the documentary record, the course highlights the wider real-world implications of bias. A successful example of incremental growth, LTI 350G is built upon the more modest educational opportunities I have created for students around the topic in the past. While LTI 350G may be too niche to serve as a model for many other archival professionals, the format of the semester-length course provided a number of opportunities to integrate inclusion in a meaningful way. My hope is that this attention to accessibility and inclusion may inspire similar consideration in other areas of the archival endeavor. More practically, I offer the experiential learning activities designed for the course. All can be adapted for use in more typical class or group visits to archives. They are discussed at the end of the chapter with particular attention paid to the activity most directly concerned with teaching students to recognize bias in records

Respuesta a una crítica política y a un ataque personal contra un Informe de las Naciones Unidas que presenta nueva evidencia sobre la prostitución como causa y consecuencia de la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas

Reem Alsalem, Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas, sus causas y consecuencias, responde a las acusaciones falsas y infundadas y a los ataques personales sobre su informe sobre Prostitución y Violencia contra la Mujer, presentado ante la 56ª sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra, 2024. Presenté nueva evidencia sobre la relación entre la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas y la prostitución. Utilizando el derecho de los derechos humanos, el informe describe la prostitución como un sistema de abuso, explotación y violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas. El objetivo del informe es aclarar conceptos y terminología, y describir las causas y consecuencias de la prostitución. El éxito del informe radica en romper la dominación de la narrativa unilateral que ha sido en gran medida impulsada por poderosos lobbies y grupos de interés que se benefician de la explotación y el abuso del cuerpo de las mujeres y buscan legitimarla. Cuando se da a las opiniones de las mujeres prostituidas la importancia que merecen, cuando se deja que los datos hablen por sí mismos, queda claro que la prostitución es un sistema de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas

Usage Statistics: Project COUNTER R5 pr_p1 Report FY2024 - Platform Usage

Project COUNTER R5 Report PR_P1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. The PR_P1 report is defined as Platform Usage. This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI. File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics. Results: Searches Platform - 317,298 Total Item Requests - 1,153,277 Unique Item Requests - 855,010 Unique Title Requests - 56,41

Usage Statistics: Project COUNTER R5 tr_b1 Report FY2024 - Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold) by Title

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. The TR_B1 report is defined as Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold). This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI. File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics. Results: Total Item Requests - 130,532 Unique Title Requests - 54,59

Alma Link Resolver Referring Sources Report 2023-2024

Statistics from 2023-2024 on the number of OpenURL requests made to the Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries. Information provided includes Source, Number of Requests, Number of Clicked Requests, % Clicks from Requests