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SC SHRAB Focus Group Results HBCU Part 2

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SC SHRAB Focus Group Results HBCU Part 2

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November 18th Part 2 Focus Group Summary Notes

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SC SHRAB results SC Federation of Museums

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SC SHRAB results SC Federation of Museums

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The results of the 2020 SHRAB Focus Groups are attached.  The final results were compiled by each focus group, so there are 6 total.

1.       PALMCOP on January 24, 2020

2.       SC Federation of Musuems March 12, 2020

3.       SCAA November 30, 2020

4.       SCLA December 11, 2020

5.       HBCU and other African-American Institutions – October 30 and November 18, 2020.

This entry has the PALMCOP results attached. I'll attach the others in additional entries.

Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,

Erin Lowry

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https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

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Microgrant for Digital Preservation Courses

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Microgrant for Digital Preservation Courses

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https://www.dpoe.network/professional-development-support/

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Professional Development Funding – Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network

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Applications will be accepted through June 2024, on a rolling basis.

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https://mukurtu.org/

Hosted content management system that was built for indigenous collections. They allow different levels of access based on tribal permissions.

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Cooperative Metadata Team (CoMeT)

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https://libguides.library.cofc.edu/reparativedescription

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The primary mission of College of Charleston's Archival Repositories is to evaluate, acquire, organize, preserve, and make available regionally significant and/or rare printed and archival materials to support the college curriculum and student, faculty, and patron research. The process of describing materials for access is iterative and requires continual engagement with core values and ethical obligations. Archival staff are committed to representing the contents, creators, and those depicted in our holdings accurately and respectfully. However, we acknowledge that, for generations, the same principles may not have been held in high regard by archival workers at the College of Charleston, the vast majority of whom were white and/or cisgender. As a result, archival descriptions for collections processed in the past may contain white-centric or otherwise exclusionary language that may be offensive or harmful to Black, Indigenous, and people of color and/or other historically under-represented and/or marginalized peoples. These communities have historically had less access to and privilege within libraries and archives and therefore have had less control over how they are represented and described.

Descriptive language used in our finding aids and catalog records was either written by the people and organizations that created the original material (creator-generated) or was created or approved by library staff (staff-generated). For example, offensive, creator-generated language may be transcribed and included in finding aids, catalog records or container labels according to standards governing archival arrangement and description. Retaining original language, even language that might be offensive, can provide important historical and cultural context about the people that created the materials and the society in which they lived. On the other hand, offensive, staff-generated language may be included as a result of established best practices that designate Library of Congress Subject Headings as the primary means of assigning descriptors in both library catalog records and finding aids. Unfortunately, controlled vocabularies and subject headings can be problematic and may contain oppressive and offensive terminology.

We stand with other archivists and archival memory workers committed to addressing these description issues. We will audit, review, and repair offensive descriptions using language that reflects our responsibility to describe people and organizations represented in our holdings in an accurate, empathetic, and ethical manner.

If you encounter oppressive or offensive language or terminology, please complete this form. We will review any feedback provided and update the description as appropriate.

We are indebted to Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center and Princeton University Library's Special Collections for their statements on potentially harmful language in archival description. These statements were extraordinarily helpful as we attempted to craft our own.

We are equally indebted to the work of archivists and memory workers who are generating the necessary infrastructure and professional resources for framing ethical archival description. These include Dorothy Berry, Kelly Bolding, Michelle Caswell, Jackie Dean, Emily Drabinski, Jarrett Drake, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jasmine Jones, Bergis Jules, Dominique Luster, Annie Tang, Sam Winn, Rachel Winston, and the collective labors of Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia.

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LibGuides: Reparative Description: College of Charleston Archival Repositories: Home

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The primary mission of College of Charleston's Archival Repositories is to evaluate, acquire, organize, preserve, and make available regionally significant and/or rare printed and archival materials to support the college curriculum and student, faculty, and patron research. The process of describing materials for access is iterative and requires continual engagement with core values and ethical obligations.

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Oral History / Documentary type project to document the Beaufort area.

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"The Silence of the Archive" by David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson

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Working with local organizations, like the Clemson Area African American Museum and with an English professor who has a grant to look at the African American community in the area and at Clemson. Have recently hired an oral historian to undertake interviews with people from underrepresented communities on campus and, with the "Call Me Mister" program and others, civil rights in the South Carolina in the 1960's.

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Local homeowners association (interesting!)

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Reparative Description - Clemson University

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Reparative Description - Clemson University

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Clemson has convened an Inclusive Description Task Force this summer to research and present recommendations to administration on how to address and integrate this work into our daily jobs across all description areas in the Libraries (finding aids, digital collections, catalog records, museum records, etc.). We've drafted an annotated bibliography of reparative description resources, are currently working on an initial audit of collections (searching for offensive/outdated terms), and will be compiling a list of campus/community partners to reach out to as well as a report on our recommendations. I'm co-chairing the task force and welcome questions and input! -Jessica Serrao, jserrao@clemson.edu

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History & Sociology oral history of Pee Dee Community. Working with students to capture diverse view points surrounding topics such as Civil Rights, social engagements, being in the army, and more.

Less than a dozen oral histories right now documenting African American experiences. The library partnered by storing and preserving the audio files and transcripts, creation of LibGuides, and sharing of relative resources.

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At Wofford, we are hoping to undertake some oral history and collecting of artifacts from the first generation of Black students. Wofford desegregated in 1964, but only in the late 1960s did we admit a larger number of Black students. We've done a lot of work with the first two Black graduates, but want to learn more about the experiences of other early Black alumni. We've got a grant application pending to help fund this - working through our college chief equity officer - and we have already gotten interest in the project from alumni.

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What approaches are institutions using to collect material from and reach out to underrepresented communities? Who is involved in community archives activities?

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Collaborate with local public library to ask for best practices on community engagement.

Exhibits - Creative Outlets (https://researchguides.cpcc.edu/creativeoutletsexhibit); Second Ward High School (in progress)

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The arts as a "concept" is a powerful tool for storytelling, for educating, for connecting, and for advocating. The arts can take many forms - song, creative writing, sculpture, dance/theater, photography, digital design, 3-dimensional design - the possibilities are endless.

All patrons of the arts have a different experience. Some may notice the nuance of the strokes, others may notice the emotion captured in an image, while others experience the work in a way the designer never intended. That is the beauty of art; it gives a voice to the voiceless and a platform for those without a stage.

Throughout this exhibit, we encourage our audience to see the objects on display as both works of art and works of advocacy. Some items showcased here were created for class credit, others as a creative outlet, and some as an advocacy tool. These items were selected based on their beauty as well as their ability to advocate for causes greater than ourselves.

We all have a role to play as creators, educators, and innovators. We hope this exhibition will inspire you to support whatever causes are dear to you and create something that can support that cause.

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This collaborative display showcases the efforts and achievements of Central Piedmont students and employees in the realms of art and advocacy over the course of six decades.

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Where are some places we can provide archival outreach, what kind of content would people be interested in hearing.

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The SC State Historical Records Advisory Board regrant program has awarded 12 institutions with funding from the NHPRC, including, historical societies, museums, universities, and rural/smaller SC towns representing traditionally underrepresented collections for this current grant cycle.  I would like to share information about these awarded collections as well as opportunities for future regrant awards.  Contact Erin Lowry elowry@scdah.sc.gov to share at a breakout session.

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Reparative Description Topic - Central Piedmont

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Reparative Description Topic - Central Piedmont

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Talk about what units/organizations are doing in terms of reparative description/reparative metadata