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…