Additional Reading: Potentially Harmful Language in Archival Description

Additional Sources and Further Reading:

Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia Anti-Racist Working Group. “Anti-Racist Description Resources.” October 2019. https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/ardr_final.pdf 

Disability History Museum. “FAQs.” Accessed October 2019. https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/FAQ.html

Report of the PCC Ad Hoc Task Group on Gender in Name Authority Records. October 4, 2016. https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/Gender_375%20field_RecommendationReport.pdf

Social Networks and Archival Context. “SNAC Cooperative Demographics Statement.” Accessed October 2019. https://portal.snaccooperative.org/node/359

Adler, Melissa. "Case for Taxonomic Reparations". Knowledge Organization. 2016, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p 630-640.  

Berry, Dorothy. "Digitizing and Enhancing Description Across Collections to Make African American Materials More Discoverable on Umbra Search African American History." Diversity for Design case study. Accessed July 17, 2019. https://des4div.library.northeastern.edu/digitizing-and-enhancing-description-across-collections-to-make-african-american-materials-more-discoverable-on-umbra-search-african-american-history/

Billey, Amber. Just Because We Can, Doesn’t Mean We Should: An Argument for Simplicity and Data Privacy With Name Authority Work in the Linked Data Environment. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19386389.2019.1589684

Billey, Amber, Emily Drabinski, and K. R. Roberto. 2014. “What’s Gender Got to Do with It? A Critique of RDA 9.7.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 52 (4): 412–21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639374.2014.882465.

Bolding, Kelly. “Reparative Processing: A Case Study in Auditing Legacy Description for Racism.” Midwest Archives Conference. March 24, 2018. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MhOXx5ZlVjb_8pfvvFquMqLsUUlOHFFMT4js5EP4qnA.

Caswell, Michelle. "Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives,"The Library Quarterly 87, no. 3 (July 2017): 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1086/692299

Cifor, Marika. "Aligning Bodies: Collecting, Arranging, and Describing Hatred for a Critical Queer Archives." Library Trends 64:4 (Spring 2016), 756-775.

Douglas, Jennifer.  “Toward More Honest Description.”  American Archivist.  79:1 (Spring/Summer 2016), pp. 26-55. Accessed July 2019. www.jstor.org/stable/26356699.

Drabinski, Emily. 2013. “Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 83 (2): 94–111. https://digitalcommons.liu.edu/brooklyn_libfacpubs/9/.

Drake, Jarrett M. “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description.” Delivered at the Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing, April 4–5, 2016, in Cambridge, MA. https://medium.com/on-archivy/radtech-meets-radarch-towards-a-new-principle-for-archives-and-archival-description-568f133e4325

Dunbar, Anthony W.  “Introducing Critical Race Theory to Archival Discourse:  Getting the Conversation Started.”  Archival Science 6:1 (March 2006), pp. 109-129.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” community-sourced document, Accessed June 25, 2020, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4TEdDgYslX-hlKezLodMIM71My3KTN0zxRv0IQTOQs.

Fox, Melodie J. 2011. “Prototype Theory: An Alternative Concept Theory for Categorizing Sex and Gender?” NASKO.

Hwang, Karen Li-Lun. "Minding and Mending the Gaps: A Case Study in Linked Open Data." Diversity for Design Toolkit. Accessed 2019-07-17. https://des4div.library.northeastern.edu/minding-and-mending-the-gaps-a-case-study-in-linked-open-data/

Larade, Sharon P. and Johanne M. Pelletier. "Mediating in a Neutral Environment: Gender-Inclusive or Neutral Language in Archival Description." Archivaria 35 (Spring 1993): 99-109.

Long, Kara, Santi Thompson, Sarah Potvin, and Monica Rivero. "The 'Wicked Problem' of Neutral Description: Toward a Documentation Approach to Metadata Standards." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 55(3): 107-128. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2016.1278419

Matienzo, Mx A. "To Hell With Good Intentions: Linked Data, Community and the Power to Name." February 11, 2016. http://matienzo.org/2016/to-hell-with-good-intentions/.

Millar, Laura.  “An Obligation of Trust:  Speculations on Accountability and Description.”  American Archivist. 69 (Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 60-78.

Moulaison, Heather Lea. “Authors and Authorities in Post-RDA Library Systems.” 2014. Retrieved http://codabox.org/147/2/086-moulaison-en.pdf

Noble, Safiya Umoja. “Google Search: Hyper-visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible,” InVisible Culture 19 (2013). http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/google-search-hyper-visibility-as-a-means-of-rendering-black-women-and-girls-invisible/.

Olson, Hope, and Rose Schlegl. 1999. “Bias in Subject Access Standards: A Content Analysis of the Critical Literature.” In Information Science Where Has It Been, Where Is It Going? Canadian Association for Information Science. Sherbrooke, Canada: Canadian Association for Information Science. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/ojs/index.php/cais/article/viewFile/364/322.

Olson, Hope A. "The Power to Name: Representation in Library Catalogs." Signs 26:3 (Spring 2001), pp. 639-668.

Olson, Hope A. The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries. Dordrecht: Spring, 2002.

Rinn, Meghan R. "Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P.T. Barnum Digital Collection." Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 5 (1) 2018.

Sadler, Bess and Chris Bourg. "Feminism and the Future of Library Discovery." Code4Lib Journal Issue 28. April 14, 2015. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10425

Sandberg, Jane, ed. Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019.

Shilton, Katie and Ramesh Srinivasan.  “Participatory Appraisal and Arrangement for Multicultural Archival Collections.”  Archivaria. 63 (Spring 2007), pp. 87-101. 

Thompson, Kelly J. “More than a Name: A Content Analysis of Name Authority Records for Authors who Self-Identify as Trans.” Vol 60, No. 3 (2016). Accessed July 2019. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/6036/7732

Winn, Sam. “Radical Honesty in Archival Description.” (Powerpoint presentation). 

Wood, Stacy et. al.  “Mobilizing Records:  Re-Framing Archival Description to Support

Human Rights.” Archival Science. 4:3-4 (October 2014), pp. 397-419.