Daniel, Dominique. “Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives.” The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 82–104. Charting developments in the field since the 1960s, Dominique Daniel shows evolution of what she defines as “ethnic archiving”—the changes…
Diversity Collection Assessment in Large Academic Libraries
Ciszek, Matthew P., and Courtney L. Young. “Diversity Collection Assessment in Large Academic Libraries.” Collection Building 29, no. 4 (October 2010): 154–161. Ciszek and Young’s article offers different methods to assess an academic library’s collections for diversity regardless of the…
From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives
Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43. Caswell and Cifor propose a pivot from the rights-based framework used to discuss social justice in archives in favor…
“‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: Community Archives and the Importance of Representation”
Caswell, Michelle, Alda Allina Migoni, Noah Geraci, and Marika Cifor. “‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: Community Archives and the Importance of Representation.” Archives and Records 38, no. 1 (2017): 5–26. Caswell, Migoni, Geraci, and Cifor advance a new framework…
Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. New York: Routledge, 2021. Urgent Archives reckons with how pervasive and intertwined oppressive and violent practices are within Western archives. Caswell takes us through four chapters that introduce us to how harmful…
Leading by Diversifying Collections: A Guide for Academic Library Leadership
Bledsoe, Kara, Danielle Cooper, Roger Schonfeld, and Oya Y. Rieger. Leading by Diversifying Collections: A Guide for Academic Library Leadership. Ithaka S+R, November 9, 2022. In this Ithaka S+R research report, Bledsoe, Cooper, Schonfeld, and Rieger offer a guide, with…
Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries
Baildon, Michelle, Dana Hamlin, Czeslaw Jankowski, Rhonda Kauffman, Julia Lanigan, Michelle Miller, Jessica Venlet, and Ann Marie Willer. “Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries.” MIT Libraries, 2017. Baildon…
Inclusive Description
“Inclusive Description.” Society of American Archivists. This website affords a bibliography of resources on inclusive description practices in archives, including case studies, manuals and guidelines, research and theory (articles, academic papers, etc.), resource lists, and sample statements about harmful language…
The Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Queer Archiving and the Fluidity of Language
Alper, Bianca Finley, Isaac Fellman, and Megan Needels. “The Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Queer Archiving and the Fluidity of Language.” Descriptive Notes: The blog of the Description Section of the Society of American Archivists, December 5, 2022. Alper, Fellman, and Needels document…
Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies
Howard, Sara A., and Steven A. Knowlton. “Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies.” Library Trends 67, no. 1 (Summer 2018): 74–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0026. Howard and Knowlton explore how bias…