Skeletons in Your Closet: Heavy Small Collections

“Archival description expresses professional ethics and values” (DACS, Revised Principle 1). How do we right the wrongs that our institutions and communities have committed or permitted when our collections contain evidence of harm? Increasing transparency about our archival judgments includes sharing our descriptive work and discussing how our archival ethics and responsibilities—to our materials, our communities, our institutions, and ourselves—shape our description and writin