Recognition, Reassessment, and Remediation: A small scale approach to improving harmful or exclusionary descriptive practices in the archives

Archives and special collections repositories rely on descriptive practices to provide researchers with entry points to locate and guides to navigate the materials that we steward. The efforts to remediate harmful and missing information, even in incremental steps can make a huge difference. To repair and improve our collections access and descriptions is an iterative process, and one that is scalable for any size collection or staff. This presentation will demonstrate the steps we are taking to develop a scalable project to review and assess or collections and implement changes. It will also outline the future plans to expand to diversify our reviewers to include researchers, faculty, students, and other community stakeholders

Collective Wisdom: An Exploration of Library, Archives and Museum Cultures

The 2016 Collective Wisdom: Library, Archives and Museum (LAM) Conference Exchange program brought together 18 librarians, archivists and museum professionals to form a cohort charged with exploring cross-sector practices and culture with an eye toward increasing interdisciplinary collaborations and continuing education. This white paper presents reflections and provides recommendations based on the cohort experience. Cohort members represented a range of library, archives and museum institutions, academic programs and professional organizations from across the US and the Territory of American Samoa