Description
This three-part webinar series will touch on various aspects of reparative description work, presented by archivists engaged in that work. The first session will focus on two projects related to the incarceration of Japanese American citizens during the second world war. Archivists involved in these projects will reflect on their individual projects but also provide a comparative perspective to see what variables can impact project decisions and to reinforce the notion that there are multiple ways to resolve issues. The second webinar will focus on one institution’s implementation of a reparative framework across their collections, including pragmatic approaches to policy development, procedures, workflows and documentation for the review and revision of legacy description. The final webinar will focus on a strategy for assessing your reparative description initiative. This will include an overview on the Maturity Model for Reparative Description created by Stephanie Luke and Sharon Mizota and will conclude with a conversation between presenters on how an adaptation of this model can be used to address challenges and opportunities in reparative description initiatives. All webinars will include time for questions and answers for participants attending the live sessions.| Period | May 2024 → Jun 2024 |
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| Held at | Society of American Archivists |
| Degree of Recognition | National |