Engagement – IDEA in Collections Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Sources

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. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/108771.

Baildon et al. outline economic, socio-political, and cultural systems of power and oppression from and through which collections emerge, as well as ways for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to address these systemic problems. They recommend four broad strategies to bolster diversity, inclusivity, and social justice (DISJ) across the MIT Libraries: (1) reevaluate their scholarly publication subscriptions and vendors, seek out marginalized vendors, and investigate open access alternatives; (2) revise acquisition policies, acquire marginalized communities’ materials, hire staff trained to work with marginalized communities’ materials, and use inclusive language in material descriptions; (3) partner with the community, support groups advancing DISJ values, and connect with students to promote information sciences; and (4) build an organizational infrastructure for DISJ within the library by promoting DISJ events, providing trainings, celebrating successes, and systematically reviewing policies, procedures, and dependencies to evaluate whether they contribute to or detract from DISJ values.

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. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.317833.

In this Ithaka S+R research report, Bledsoe, Cooper, Schonfeld, and Rieger offer a guide, with examples, takeaways, and exercises, for academic library administrators to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values in their collections. The authors outline the process of setting goals, identifying stakeholders, guiding strategies, and tracking process (“Creating the process”); evaluating collections, identifying gaps, and determining which materials to reframe or remove (“Shaping the collection”); securing funds and resources as well as appropriately allocating that money and support (“Allocating resources”); and setting concrete goals while fostering a healthy cultural attitude to ongoing DEI work in collections (“Reaching ‘the end’”). The report concludes with an extensive current bibliography of “resources for further reading,” along with a list of well-known library administrators and collections managers interviewed by the authors.

Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001355.

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 practices and epistemologies are endemic to archival work, how community archives are responding to and working against harmful practices to make archives representative and restorative, and finally how archives can become liberatory and reparative spaces as well as how archivists can work toward those outcomes. Caswell’s book interrogates archival assumptions, policies, and practices in the hope of finding frameworks that move from longstanding violence and erasure toward the possibilities of community archives and community engagement.

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2016.1260445.

Caswell, Migoni, Geraci, and Cifor advance a new framework for recognizing and quantifying the impact of community archives on marginalized communities. They do so by analyzing interviews with administrators and staff across Southern California. These interviews inspired the authors’ tripartite framework: a person from a marginalized community finds themselves represented within the archive (ontological), members of a marginalized community find themselves represented (epistemological), and members of a marginalized community feel they belong in the archive (social). These three concepts combined result in “representational belonging,” in which marginalized persons and communities feel represented by and a part of the archive. On the other hand, symbolic annihilation refers to underrepresentation or misrepresentation of a marginalized community in archives and culture. Community archives’ largest impact, then, is their ability to work against symbolic annihilation through representational belonging.

Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/687705.

Caswell and Cifor propose a pivot from the rights-based framework used to discuss social justice in archives in favor of a method based in a feminist ethics of care—in particular, based on the practice of radical empathy. A feminist ethics of care shifts toward a reparative and restorative approach that has been elided in rights-based frameworks; it leans on ideas of community and mutual obligation rather than individualism, and it recognizes that injustice is intersectional, is macro and micro, and pervades the public and private. As such, it provides a natural pathway to a more affective and empathetic approach to the work of archives. Empathy can interconnect archivists and materials and bridge the archive and the community, inviting archivists and institutions to partner with the creators of and the communities represented in materials.

Daniel, Dominique. “Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives.” The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 82–104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27802716.

Charting developments in the field since the 1960s, Dominique Daniel shows evolution of what she defines as “ethnic archiving”—the changes in archival processes and theory to document the experiences of immigrants and different ethnic communities. She starts with Howard Zinn’s famous observation of the biases and silences within the archives through the difficulties faced by archivists who sought to address Zinn’s critique: the difficulties of collecting and elevating the records and materials of immigrant and ethnic communities, and the real challenge of and need for building trust and connections with these communities. According to the author, much of this work is buoyed by postmodernism’s popularity and the development of digital technologies for archives. Daniel emphasizes the necessary and integral work of continuing to involve ethnic and immigrant communities in archival processes and to form deeper relationships with them.

Kumbier, Alana, and Julia Starkey. “Access Is Not Problem Solving: Disability Justice and Libraries.” Library Trends 64, no. 3 (2016): 468–491. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613919.

Kumbier and Starkey explore how the discourse of accessibility in libraries benefits from being put in conversation with disability scholars’ and activists’ work on access. More specifically, they ask that administrators, librarians, and library workers consider disability as more than ADA compliance and a problem to be solved. Rather, library staff should recognize that disability is a fluid and socially constructed experience—one shaped by social, cultural, political, economic, and historic factors—as well as an individual and specific experience that necessitates material accommodations. Library staff must consider both the material and systemic issues of access. Kumbier and Starkey suggest community-informed approaches to determining and addressing issues of access; increased recruitment, education, and support of persons with disabilities by information science graduate programs and libraries; publication of the perspectives of persons with disabilities and disability scholars within library and information science journals; and intersectional understandings of access and accessibility.

O’Neal. Jennifer R. “‘The Right to Know’: Decolonizing Native American Archives.” Journal of Western Archives 6, no. 1 (2015): Article 2. https://doi.org/10.26077/fc99-b022.

O’Neal details efforts to decolonize collections and archives, particularly in the American West. Following Vine Deloria’s “The Right to Know” (1978) as an evaluative framework, she surveys reparative work done to decolonize archives and reconnect Native American communities to their documents, working against archival exclusion, both physically and materially. She also documents efforts to develop Native American archives by and for the community as well as advocacy for the training of Native American librarians and archivists. O’Neal advocates for the inclusion of Native Americans in processing and maintaining their communities’ records and for recognition of the limitations of Western archival theoretical frameworks for Native American collections. She also suggests combining archival theory and processing with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). O’Neal underscores the necessity of access, collaboration, healing, reconciliation, and restoration for decolonization to succeed.

Powell, Chaitra, Holly Smith, Shanee’ Murrain, and Shyla Hearn. “This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker.” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/kula.25.

Powell, Smith, Murrain, and Hearn look through their experiences as Black women archivists in distinct organizations to uncover ways that archives, institutions, and the archival profession can support and sustain Black community archives. They approach this exploration in four sections: advocacy, collaboration, truth, and agency. Each reflects a central approach in each respective author’s experience with Black archives. Each finds ways of connecting the Black community to the archive, involving voices typically erased from or excluded from participating in shaping collection procedures or exhibition curation, for example. This work can be reparative and restorative, though as the authors acknowledge, the work is ongoing. What is required is organizations reassessing and adjusting themselves to partner with Black communities and intentionally re-invest in community relationships fiscally, procedurally, and ideologically.

Thorpe, Kirsten. “Transformative Praxis – Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-Determination in Libraries and Archives.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe: An Open Access, Open Peer Reviewed Journal. January 23, 2019. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/transformative-praxis/.

Thorpe shows a possible way toward decolonizing and Indigenizing libraries and archives as well as their practices. In particular, Thorpe advocates for Indigenous self-determination in libraries and archives, enabling Indigenous persons to participate in and influence historical narratives, protocols, and representation. Drawing on Martin Nakata’s Indigenous Standpoint Theory and Cultural Interface, autoethnography, and Indigenous critical theory, Thorpe encourages libraries and archives to apply Indigenous research methodologies critically; adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for policy and project changes; seek input from communities on programming, research, and protocols as well as what to prioritize when decolonizing and Indigenizing collections; critically reflect on and decolonize organizational structures; ethically engage with Indigenous communities on decision-making; commit to the hard work of reallocating labor, time, and resources to decolonize and Indigenize collections; and advocate for professional associations to incorporate Indigenous perspectives.

Morales, Myrna, Em Claire Knowles, and Chris Bourg. “Diversity, Social Justice, and the Future of Libraries.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 14, no. 3 (2014): 439–451. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2014.0017.

In this essay, Morales, Knowles, and Bourg advocate for academic libraries and library staff to ramp up diversity and social justice efforts within their institutional environments and in partnership with the increasingly diverse communities they serve. Pointing out that library practices reinforce existing structures of inequity and privilege, the authors note key priorities, including increasing demographic diversity in predominantly white and female librarianship and developing social justice praxis in collection development and classification and other areas. The Yvonne Pappenheim Library on Racism in Boston is presented as a case study of community engagement and grassroots social justice work. Sweeping in its recommendations, this influential essay is widely cited in the library literature.

Additional Resources

Aase, Lara. “There Is No View From Nowhere: User Experience Research at the Center of Southwest Studies Library.” Collection Management, Sharing Knowledge and Smashing Stereotypes: Representing Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous Realities in Library Collections, 42, no. 3–4 (October 2, 2017): 139–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2017.1328324.

Acevedo, Oriana, and Ellen Forsyth. “What If I Speak Another Language? Many Libraries, Many Languages.” Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 70, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 75–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2021.1875560.

Adler, Melissa. “Gender Expression in a Small World: Social Tagging of Transgender-Themed Books.” Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 50, no. 1 (2013): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001081.

———. “Transcending Library Catalogs: A Comparative Study of Controlled Terms in Library of Congress Subject Headings and User-Generated Tags in LibraryThing for Transgender Books.” Journal of Web Librarianship 3, no. 4 (November 23, 2009): 309–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322900903341099.

Alex Brown (they/them) [@QueenOfRats]. “There Absolutely Is a Difference. We Serve Individuals but Pretend They Are the Community.” Tweet. Twitter, August 18, 2021. https://twitter.com/QueenOfRats/status/1427985206976253956.

Baildon, Michelle. “Extending the Social Justice Mindset: Implications for Scholarly Communication.” College & Research Libraries News 79, no. 4 (2018): 176–79. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.4.176.

Baildon, Michelle, Rhonda Y. Kauffman, Melissa Feiden, Greta Kuriger Suiter, Donald Long, and Jacob Higgins. “Case Study: MIT Libraries Collections: Future of Academic Library Print Collections,” 2017.

Baucom, Erin. “An Exploration into Archival Descriptions of LGBTQ Materials.” The American Archivist 81, no. 1 (March 2018): 65–83. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-81.1.65.

Becker, Jenifer. “Bringing Student Voices into the University Archives: A Student Organization Documentation Initiative Case Study.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, December 28, 2017. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/bringing-student-voices/.

Berry, Dorothy. “The House Archives Built.” up//root, June 22, 2021. https://www.uproot.space/features/the-house-archives-built.

———. “Umbra Search African American History: Aggregating African American Digital Archives.” Items (blog), December 14, 2016. https://items.ssrc.org/parameters/umbra-search-african-american-history-aggregating-african-american-digital-archives/.

Blackburn, Fiona. “The Intersection Between Cultural Competence and Whiteness in Libraries.” In the LIbrary with the Lead Pipe (blog), December 1, 2015. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/culturalcompetence/.

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. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.317833.

Brilmyer, Gracen. “‘They Weren’t Necessarily Designed with Lived Experiences of Disability in Mind’: The Affect of Archival In/Accessibility and ‘Emotionally Expensive’ Spatial Un/Belonging.” Archivaria, no. 94 (December 14, 2022): 120–53. https://doi.org/10.7202/1094878ar.

Brimhall-Vargas, Mark. “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: The Role of Libraries and Librarians in Bringing Equitable Access to Marginalized Communities.” The Library Quarterly, Diversity and Library Information Science Education, 85, no. 2 (April 2015): 193–99. https://doi.org/10.1086/680157.

Brown, Elspeth H. “Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive.” Archivaria 89 (Spring 2020): 6–32.

Bryant, Melissa. “Whāia te Mātauranga – How are Research Libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand Applying Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / the Māori Subject Headings and Offering Them to Users?” Masters Thesis, School of Information Management, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, 2015. https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/4633/thesis.pdf?sequence=2.

Carey, Frederick. “Communicating with Information: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with ASD.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, April 1, 2020. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/communicating-with-information/.

Caswell, Michelle. “Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives.” The Library Quarterly 87, no. 3 (July 2017): 222–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/692299.

Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43.

Caswell, Michelle, Marika Cifor, and Mario H. Ramirez. “‘To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing’: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives.” The American Archivist 79, no. 1 (June 2016): 56–81. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081.79.1.56.

Chen, Sophy Shu-jiun. “A Holistic Perspective on Indigenous Digital Libraries in Taiwan.” Presented at the 2014 IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110363234-023.

Coffee, Kevin. “Cultural Inclusion, Exclusion and the Formative Roles of Museums.” Museum Management and Curatorship 23, no. 3 (September 1, 2008): 261–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647770802234078.

Craft, Anna R. “Creating Connections, Building Community: The Role of Oral History Collections in Documenting and Sharing Campus Diversity.” Serials Review 44, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 232–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2018.1513750.

Cuk, Sarah. “Do-It-Yourself Music Archives: A Response and Alternative to Mainstream Exclusivity.” The Serials Librarian 81, no. 2 (August 18, 2021): 132–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2021.1910614.

Daniel, Dominique. “Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives.” The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 82–104. https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.73.1.k2837h27wv1201hv.

“D&I Planning Spotlight: University Library | UChicago Diversity Initiative | The University of Chicago.” Accessed September 3, 2020. https://diversityandinclusion.uchicago.edu/news/article/di-planning-spotlight-university-library/.

Drake, Jarrett M. “How Libraries Can Trump the Trend to Make America Hate Again.” On Archivy (blog), April 24, 2017. https://medium.com/on-archivy/how-libraries-can-trump-the-trend-to-make-america-hate-again-8a4170df1906.

———. “Liberatory Archives: Towards Belonging and Believing (Part 1).” On Archivy (blog), October 22, 2016. https://medium.com/on-archivy/liberatory-archives-towards-belonging-and-believing-part-1-d26aaeb0edd1.

Duarte, Marisa Elena, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. “Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Indigenous Knowledge Organization, 53, no. 5–6 (2015): 677–702. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1018396.

Dunbar, Anthony W. “Introducing Critical Race Theory to Archival Discourse: Getting the Conversation Started.” Archival Science 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2006): 109–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-006-9022-6.

Elizabeth Ott [@eliz_ott]. “This Panel on Metadata and Library Interventions into Bibliographic Practice at Queer Bib Is YET AGAIN a Reminder That Minimal Description Practices Are Antithetical to Queer History. Community Informed, Ethical, Inclusive Description Requires Labor Intensive Approaches.” Tweet. Twitter, February 3, 2023. https://twitter.com/eliz_ott/status/1621519711182921733.

Everett, Stephanie. “Visualizing the Silent Dialogue About Race: Diversity Outreach in an Academic Library.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 44, no. 4 (July 2018): 518–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.04.002.

Fagnan, Luc. “Decolonizing Description: First Steps to Cataloguing with Indigenous Syllabics.” Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals 1, no. 1 (March 27, 2020): 33–40. https://doi.org/10.29173/pathfinder21.

Farnel, Sharon, Denise Koufogiannakis, Sheila Laroque, Ian Bigelow, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Debbie Feisst, and Kayla Lar-Son. “Rethinking Representation: Indigenous Peoples and Contexts at the University of Alberta Libraries.” The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion 2, no. 3 (July 24, 2018). https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v2i3.32190.

Farnel, Sharon, Ali Shiri, Dinesh Rathi, Cathy Cockney, Sandy Campbell, and Robyn Stobbs. “Of Places and Names: Working with Northern Canadian Communities to Enhance Subject Access to Digital Resources.” Presented at the IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaborations. Collaboration. Community in Sessioni 151 – Classification and Indexing, Columbus, OH, 2016. https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1326/1/151-farnel-en.pdf.

Gooda, Mick. “The Practical Power of Human Rights: How International Human Rights Standards Can Inform Archival and Record Keeping Practices.” Archival Science 12, no. 2 (June 2012): 141–50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-011-9166-x.

Google Docs. “Value Into Action: Evaluating & Developing Monographic Collectionsfor Diversity & Inclusion.” Accessed September 3, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/11034kec_tsk-ydOvkZG4XzECvKkD6mr4/view?usp=embed_facebook.

Grimm, Tracy, and Chon Noriega. “Documenting Regional Latino Arts and Culture: Case Studies for a Collaborative, Community-Oriented Approach.” The American Archivist 76, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 95–112. https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.76.1.ph222324p1g157t7.

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Haberstock, Lauren. “Participatory Description: Decolonizing Descriptive Methodologies in Archives.” Archival Science 20, no. 2 (June 2020): 125–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09328-6.

Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Walter Ray, Aaron M. Lisec, and Melvin “Pepper” Holder. “Forging Alliances for Reparative Documentation and Revitalization of Marginalized Communities: Reclaiming the African American Heritage of Southern Illinois.” In Advances in Library and Information Science, edited by Nandita S. Mani, Michelle A. Cawley, and Emily P. Jones, 146–65. IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7255-2.ch008.

Harris, Verne. “The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory, and Archives in South Africa.” Archival Science 2, no. 1–2 (March 2002): 63–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435631.

Hennessy, Kate. “Virtual Repatriation and Digital Cultural Heritage: The Ethics of Managing Online Collections.” Anthropology News 50, no. 4 (2009): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50405.x.

Hogan, Kristen. “‘Breaking Secrets’ in the Catalog: Proposing the Black Queer Studies Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.” Progressive Librarian 34–35 (2010): 50–57.

Hollinger, R. Eric, Jr Edwell John, Harold Jacobs, Lora Moran-Collins, Carolyn Thome, Jonathan Zastrow, Adam Metallo, Günter Waibel, and Vince Rossi. “Tlingit-Smithsonian Collaborations with 3D Digitization of Cultural Objects.” Museum Anthropology Review 7, no. 1–2 (2013): 201–53.

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Hughes-Watkins, Lae’l. “Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices.” The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 5 (2018): 1–17.

Hunt, Dallas, and Shaun A. Stevenson. “Decolonizing Geographies of Power: Indigenous Digital Counter-Mapping Practices on Turtle Island.” Settler Colonial Studies 7, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 372–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2016.1186311.

Hurley, Grant. “Community Archives, Community Clouds: Enabling Digital Preservation for Small Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 129–50.

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