Works in Progress Webinar: Developing and maintaining culturally conscious descriptive practices at the Rockefeller Archive Center
View this webinar to learn how the Rockefeller Archive Center has operationalized reparative description and bias consciousness in their work.
This event is on-demand. View the recording below.
Resources
Education Campaign:
- Culturally Competent (Re)Description Education Campaign Project Overview
- Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Planning an Education Campaign
- Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Phase One of the Education Campaign
- Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Education Campaign Phase 2, the Reading Group
Related Projects:
- Our Mission, Vision & Values
- The RAC’s New Mission, Vision, and Values Statements: How We Got Here
- Cultural Competency in Archives - Processing Manual Revisions
- RAC Processing Manual
- Learning Together: Cultural Competency in Archives: Investigating Archival Description for Audiovisual Materials
- Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
- The Hybrid Archives Internship Experience (Subject Term Review)
- My Summer 2023 Internship Experience: An Introduction to Archive Work (Subject Term Review)
Slides—Download .pptx
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 in live sessions.
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.