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Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill

Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill. SAA Research Forum 2 August 2019 Jackie Dean. Inspirations and Influences.

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Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill

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  1. Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill SAA Research Forum 2 August 2019 Jackie Dean

  2. Inspirations and Influences • Jarrett Drake’s 2016 panel presentation at the Radcliffe Technology and Archival Processing symposium RadTech meets RadArch: Towards a New Principle for Archives and Archival Description • Gloria Gonzalez and Jasmine Jones’s presentation on minimal, practical, ethical archival description at the Intersections: Technology and Public Services in Special Collections Symposium • Michelle Caswell, “Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in the Archives,” Library Quarterly July 2017. • SAA 2018 session on Culturally Competent Archival (re)Description of Marginalized Histories with talks by Annie Tang, Dorothy Berry, Kelly Bolding, and Rachel Winston • Nathan Sentance’s writing about centering indigenous people voices in GLAM institutions on his Archival Decolonist blog • Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia's Anti-Racist Archival Description Guidelines

  3. Paul C. Cameron, planter, agricultural reformer, and railroad builder… Family correspondence details the familial relationships and social behavior of a wealthy planter family… Cameron Family Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/

  4. William Laurence Saunders of North Carolina was a lawyer; colonel of the 46th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America; editor of the Colonial Records of North Carolina; secretary-treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina; and secretary of state of North Carolina, 1879-1891. William Laurence Saunders Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02658/

  5. Roberta H. Jackson, African American professorof education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… Fred Hobson is an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… Roberta H. Jackson and Blyden Jackson Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04646/ Fred Hobson Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05731/

  6. Legacy: Of special note is a series of speeches discussing the race problem in North Carolina and throughout the South.

  7. Legacy: • Of special note is a series of speeches discussing the race problem throughout North Carolina and the South. Revised: • The rhetoric in many speeches reflects Carr’s positions on what he and his contemporaries called “the race problem.” Julian Shakespeare Carr Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00141/

  8. Legacy: Thomas Francis Price was a farmer from Rutherford County, N.C., serving in the 56th North Carolina Volunteers. He was married to Sarah Harrill Price. Revised: Thomas Francis Price and Sarah Harrill Price were married white farmers from Rutherford County, N.C. Thomas Francis Price served in the 56th North Carolina Infantry. Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers / https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05795/

  9. References • Jarrett Drake. “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description,” Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing, 2016. https://medium.com/on-archivy/radtech-meets-radarch-towards-a-new-principle-for-archives-and-archival-description-568f133e4325 •  Nathan Sentence. Maker unknown and the decentreing First Nations People, Archival Decolonist, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2017/07/21/maker-unknown-and-the-decentring-first-nations-people/amp/?__twitter_impression=true/ • Bergis Jules. “Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives,” National Digital Stewardship Alliance annual meeting keynote, 2017. https://medium.com/on-archivy/confronting-our-failure-of-care-around-the-legacies-of-marginalized-people-in-the-archives-dc4180397280 •  Gloria Gonzalez and Jasmine Jones. "Access and Diversity: How to Create Practical and Ethical Minimal Archival Description," Intersections: Technology and Public Services in Special Collections Symposium, 2017. •  Michelle Caswell, "Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives," The Library Quarterly 87, no. 3 (July 2017): 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1086/692299 •  Kelly Bolding. “Reparative Processing: A Case Study in Auditing Legacy Archival Description for Racism” Presentation at Midwestern Archives Conference, 2018. goo.gl/uwjQpg • Annie Tang, Dorothy Judith Berry, Kelly Bolding, Rachel E. Winston. Towards Culturally Competent Archival (Re)description of Marginalized Histories, Session 101, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, 2018 • Conscious Style Guide https://consciousstyleguide.com/articles/

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