Reading Group

Owned by Adrien Hilton
Last updated: Jan 20, 2020 by Melanie Wisner

In 2017, the Manuscript Section began hosting quarterly reading sessions. As a group we read and discuss an article, book, or other material relevant to the profession. Each session has had a new person in charge of selection and facilitation.


Readings

  • Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia Anti-Racist Description Working Group. "Anti-Racist Description Resources". https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/ardr_final.pdf
  • Baucom, Erin. “An Exploration into Archival Descriptions of LGBTQ Materials.” The American Archivist: Spring/Summer 2018, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 65-83. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-81.1.65
  • Douglas, Jennifer. "A Call to Rethink Creation: Exploring Types of Creation in Personal Archives"
  • Gelfand, Aleksandr. "Quidditch, Zombies and the Cheese Club: A Case Study in Archiving Web Presence of Student Groups at New York University," Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 2 , Article 5.  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol2/iss1/5
  • O'Neal Jennifer. “The Right to Know”: Decolonizing Native American Archives"
  • Rinn, Megan. "19th-century Depictions of Disabilities in Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P.T. Barnum Collection"
  • Santamaria, Dan. Extensible Processing for Archives and Special Collections
  • Tang, GVGK. "Sex in the Archives: The Politics of Processing and Preserving Pornography in the Digital Age"
  • Winn, Sam. “The Hubris of Neutrality in Archives.” Paper delivered at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Newark, NJ, April 2017. https://medium.com/on-archivy/the-hubris-of-neutrality-in-archives-8df6b523fe9f