Works in Progress Webinar: Developing and maintaining culturally conscious descriptive practices at the Rockefeller Archive Center
Join this webinar with the Rockefeller Archive Center to learn how they have operationalized reparative description and bias consciousness in their work.
Presenters
- Amy Berish, Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center
- Katherine Martin, Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center
- Darren Young, Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center
Description
The Rockefeller Archive Center’s Culturally Competent (Re)description (CCD) Education and Action Campaigns originated in the summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and the Archive Center’s release of a “Statement in Solidarity with the Black Community.” The statement acted as a call to action in terms of how we approach archival description, and over the past four years, resulted in a staff-wide education campaign and reading group, an overhaul of the processing manual, changes to processing planning, projects collaborating across teams, and a form for staff to submit archival description in need of review.
The webinar focuses on how Culturally Competent Description exists in the context of the Rockefeller Archive Center, how reparative description and bias consciousness has been operationalized in day-to-day processing tasks, and how we have sustained the work over the long term.
This webinar will be of interest to special collections and archives professionals; administrators with archives, special, and distinctive collections units in their portfolios; and anyone seeking to incorporate culturally competent practices into their workflows.
All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate.
Date
28 January 2025
Time
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Live webinar sessions are exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, but the recordings are publicly available to all.