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PDA autism in the workplace: Built-in accommodations in behind-the-scenes library work
(2023-10-05)
This presentation discusses the ways in which back-of-the-house library work often has built-in accommodations for neurodivergent library workers. According to 2023 statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, at least ...
Managing your ArchivesSpace implementation in a pandemic: radical empathy
(ArchivesSpace, 2020-08-04)
In this session, Bailey Hoffner (University of Oklahoma) and VivianLea Solek (Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Archives) will build on Bailey's popular session at the 2020 AchivesSpace Online Forum which highlighted how ...
Slowing down for metadata justice: On learning to trust our bodies and ourselves
(2023-12-01)
Indebted to the work of Black women writers Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and Tricia Hersey, and the continued efforts of library workers from Sandy Berman to Emily Drabinski, this session will explore why slowing down is not ...
Metadata justice at the University of Oklahoma Libraries
(ArchivesSpace, 2021-08-02)
Members of ArchivesSpace have long been interested in work to identify and rectify systemic forms of prejudice that are built into our organizational systems and software. This work is not always easy to carry out directly ...
ArchivesSpace and covid-19 – radically altering plans for a telecommute environment: how one large academic library is implementing ArchivesSpace
(ArchivesSpace, 2020-05-18)
Covid-19 has radically changed most special collections work environments. The initial nine-month plan to begin implementing ArchivesSpace at the University of Oklahoma (OU) – completed just prior to receiving stay-at-home ...
Rooting out racism in library systems - authority, description, and metadata
(University of Oklahoma, 2021-04-23)
This panel will present on the basics of library and archive cataloging and metadata creation, and demonstrate how these processes and the institutions who employ them have historically embedded and perpetuated systems of ...
Basic finding aid clean-up using OpenRefine
(Society of American Archivists, 2020-07-27)
In this session, we’ll explore some accessible and basic functionality within OpenRefine – an open source tool for cleaning up messy data – that allows archivists to take control of their finding aids and move more easily ...