MARAC 2021 Spring - Virtual Meeting 12-16 April

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    Elaine J. Coates & Wikipedia: Defining Subjectivity
    (MARAC, 2021-04-12) Stranieri, Marcella; Caringola, Elizabeth
    In May 2020, The University of Maryland, College Park’s Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) launched a project to create Wikipedia pages for archival collections that meet the website’s notability requirements. In order to do this, four female student workers created profiles and became Wikipedia editors, soon learning that 90% of Wikipedians are male. The male-female editor imbalance likely contributes to a site-wide underrepresented coverage of women-as-Wikipedia-subjects, particularly for women of color. This poster illustrates a case study of a notable woman of color, Elaine J Coates, getting removed from Wikipedia, likely due to her gender and race.
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    Session 4. Archives and FOIA in the Post-Unite the Right Rally Era
    (2021-04-12) Ravanbakhsh, Arian; Baker, Timothy D.; Gernhardt, Alan; Rhyne, Megan
    In the years since the Unite the Right white supremacy rally in Charlottesville and the removal of Confederate statues in cities across the country, supporters and opponents have utilized archives and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in response to these issues and events. This panel discussion will open dialogue on how archives can help inform the process of political decision-making, the issues FOIA requestors and responders face, and how FOIA application is uniquely both bi-partisan and non-partisan. Questions from attendees are welcomed, as well as shared experiences related to these topics.
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    PLENARY: Making Invisible Women Visible: Women’s History and Women in the Archives, 1970 – 2020
    (2021-04-13) Treadway, Sandra Gioia
    The development of women’s history as a vibrant field of study had a profound effect on the archival profession across the United States. Drawing on her experience as a historian of Virginia women and her work during the past 40 years in the archival collections of the Library of Virginia, Sandra Gioia Treadway will describe the transformations in both fields that she has witnessed during her career. She will reflect on the great strides that archival repositories in Virginia have made in preserving the record of women’s lives and activism while looking ahead to the challenges that remain. Treadway has served as Librarian of Virginia since July 2007, overseeing the Library’s comprehensive collection of print and manuscript materials documenting the history, culture, and government of Virginia. She holds a doctoral degree in American History from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Tennessee. The author of Women of Mark: A History of the Woman's Club of Richmond, Virginia, 1894-1994, Treadway is also co-editor of The Common Wealth: Treasures From the Collections of the Library of Virginia and several women’s history anthologies. She has served as president of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies and the Southern Association of Women Historians, and on the board of the Council of State Archivists.
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    Session 22. Restoring the Harmony: (Re)Establishing Order in Archives
    (2021-04-16) Ameduri, Christine; LoSardo, Brianna; Perez, Heather; Sussmeier, Stephanie
    Managing an archival repository can be a daunting task for any professional archivist, but even more so when those collections have been “meddled” with by well-intentioned, but untrained personnel. Where do you begin to (re)establish archival standards? How do you process these records and manuscripts that have lost some–or most–of their original order, provenance, or were adulterated with ancillary materials? What is the best approach to organizing and describing these collections without further disturbing their current organization? Panelists will discuss problems they have encountered processing their institution’s collections, presenting inventive solutions and workarounds that still meet archival standards. They will also discuss when and where they found it important to compromise and move on.
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    Session 16. Challenging Women’s Suffrage Narratives
    (2021-04-15) Coren, Ashleigh D.; Burdan, Amanda; Guberman, Rachel; Perrone, Fernanda
    Exhibitions provide archives, libraries, and museums the opportunity to consider new historical narratives, showcase collection materials, collaborate across the profession, and commemorate important historical events, including the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Panelists in this session will address how and why their institution decided to observe the women’s suffrage centennial with a major exhibition. From “restoring” women’s right to vote in New Jersey, to the usage of visual culture and representations as media tactics, each institution decided to focus on different elements of the suffrage narrative and the political strategies suffragists used in their fight for the vote. Inequities in the suffrage movement and the challenges of incorporating contributions of women from all walks-of-life into a more inclusive narrative will be an important focus of the discussion.
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    Session 14. You Gotta Start Somewhere: Leveraging Education and Collaboration to Create Meaningful Internship Experiences
    (2021-04-14) Cornelius, Don; Barker, Ray; Cleary, Laura; Sayles, Sheridan
    Student and non-archivist employees and interns are a fundamental part of the archival workforce that often fall into the background. While training these rising archivists can be a challenge, these relationships also provide archival professionals a chance to develop projects that address backlogs, while also providing educational opportunities to potential future colleagues. At the same time, these projects give us the chance to see our processes with fresh eyes and more diverse ideas. In public and academic library settings, these experiences help expose emerging archivists to the daily workload of archives professionals. This presentation will showcase examples of how three distinct organizations have integrated students and non-archivists into their processing, exhibition, and outreach activities.
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    Session 9. Institutional Repository and Archives Partnerships and Futures
    (2021-04-13) Kamsler, Brigette; James, Elizabeth; Harper, Lindsey; Thompson, Lori; Beach, Gretchen
    While institutional repositories are traditionally understood as platforms for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarly output of an institution, archivists and archives at these institutions can be left out of conversations regarding their development and use. Marshall University’s institutional repository, Marshall Digital Scholar, not only hosts university archives materials and other output created by the university but was expanded to include finding aids for manuscript collections, digital exhibits, digitized materials, and complex digital objects. The speakers will discuss the advantages and disadvantages this project, as well as future opportunities for developing unique forms of scholarship using institutional repositories.
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    Session 7. University Archives at 2021: Are We There Yet?
    (2021-04-13) Purcell, Aaron D.; Brodt, Zach; Cech, Maureen; Parrish, Marilyn
    College and university campuses are vibrant places, full of change in terms of technology, leadership, and purpose. Two decades into the twenty-first century, academic archivists are faced with the challenges of today, yesterday, and tomorrow. The struggle between completing analog-based archival work while building digital collections with the latest and greatest tools is all too real. This session features three university archivists, at different stages of their careers, who will discuss how changes in practice in the past twenty years has affected their archives programs and shaped the future. The moderator will contextualize the session by reviewing several predictions about the future role of archivists made in the book Academic Archives (Neal-Schuman, 2012).
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    Session 6. Engagement with Local and Institutional History Initiatives: Recent Opportunities for the Archives at the University of Virginia
    (2021-04-13) Bowden, Emily; Cavanaugh, Dan; Flaherty, Randi
    In recent years, interest in local and institutional history in the Charlottesville-Albemarle region has created new opportunities and challenges for archivists at the University of Virginia. This session will share work undertaken at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and Arthur J. Morris Law Library in response to these developments. The presentation will discuss the archivist’s role as an active researcher, scholarly collaborator, and exhibition curator, as well as ways in which local and institutional history initiatives have reshaped technical archival work in our repositories. The speakers hope that sharing these experiences with MARAC colleagues will prompt discussion about how archivists balance different roles to serve their institutions and local communities.
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    Session 3. Urban Activism and Archives
    (2021-04-12) Grinnell, David; Anglim, Chris; Klosinski, Jon; Parker, Elizabeth E.
    Documenting urban activism is a complex endeavor for any archival program. The remaining record reflects the unpredictable conditions of urban living, as well as the passion of community members for various causes. This session will examine those considerations as pursued by three different institutions in the Mid-Atlantic. One paper will cover the legacy of activism found at the University of the District of Columbia and its predecessor institutions. Another paper will address the intersection of environmental and community activism as documented in the University of Pittsburgh Archives. The third paper will explore the relation of labor organizing, urban protest, and archives as captured in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, Cornell University.