Zine Librarians Code of Ethics Zine
Created by librarians and archivists with a history of handling, cataloging, and preserving zines in an effort to help other do the same. Serves as a guide and a platform to discuss this relatively new form of media very often created by historically silenced groups, and how libraries and archives can form more ethical partnerships…
Read MoreMachine Reading the Primeros Libros / Hannah Alpert-Adams
By delving into the material processes of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), as well as the history of OCR tools, this article shows how the statistical models used for automatic transcription can embed cultural biases into the output. This article is particularly relevant to multilingual projects, as it unpacks the effects of OCR software that generally…
Read MoreDismantling The Ivory Tower: A How-To Guide for POC Charting New Strategies for Social Justice Organizing
A How-To Guide for People of Color Charting New Strategies for Social Justice Organizing. Bailey, M., Bailey, V., Green, K., & Johnson, J. M. (2015). “Dismantling The Ivory Tower: A How-To Guide for POC Charting New Strategies for Social Justice Organizing“. Detroit, MI: Allied Media Conference.
Read MoreThe (De-)Universalization of the United States: Inscribing Maori History in the Library of Congress Classification
This chapter demonstrates how the University of Waikato in New Zealand adapted a global standard (the Library of Congress Classification) for local use by inscribing topics related to and about Māori history and people. The University of Waikato’s classification simultaneously uses and implicitly critiques a universal system written from a U.S. vantage point. It seems…
Read More“To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing”: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives
This article reports on interviews conducted with South Asian American educators regarding their responses to the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), an independent, nonprofit, community-based organization that operates the websites www.saada.org and www.firstdaysproject.org. The article reports on several emergent themes: the absence of or difficulty in accessing historical materials related to South Asian Americans…
Read MoreChallenging the Algorithms of Oppression
In this video, Noble discusses Google’s harmful and dangerous search engine results –especially when searching terms such as “girls” and “Black girls” – and how these searches reify oppressive narratives about identity markers. She describes her methodology for collecting and analyzing these search engine results, which are dealing with advertisement algorithms and what narratives are…
Read MoreFrom Archives to Action: Zines, Participatory Culture, and Community Engagement in Asian America
Honma describes the use of zines in an undergraduate classroom to promote alternative pedagogies and incorporate critical inquiry and research skills. By bringing zines into his classroom as research materials, Honma provides an example of how to use archival materials and research to make connections between community archives and community action, and help students view…
Read MoreUnderstanding by Design Framework
This resource provides an overview of the Understanding by Design Framework for planning curriculum, assessment and instruction activities. Central ideas to this method are assessment and teaching, and designing curriculum based on desired learning outcomes and mechanisms for evaluating their success. [zotpress items=”{1341761:3HB26XEQ}” style=”chicago-author-date”]
Read MoreTeaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives
Caswell provides a framework for combating white supremacy, homophobia, and other harmful and persistent perspectives in the information science classroom. Through this framework, she and her students work to recognize the biases in IS and challenge those biases. This article also provides slides about practical steps and paradigmatic shifts to dismantling white supremacy in the…
Read MoreWampum, Sequoyan, and Story: Decolonizing the Digital Archive
Archives have a long and troubled history as imperialist endeavors. Scholars of digital archives can begin to decolonize the archive by asking, how is knowledge imparted, in what media, by whom, and for what ends? Drawing on a six-year-long ethnohistorical study of Cherokee language and writing, I explore these questions and analyze the epistemological work…
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