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Item “Technically” Anyone Can Use This Documentation: How the Average Archivist Can Make Use of the ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation(2023-04-05) Caringola, LizThe ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation isn’t just for developers. Members of the Technical Documentation team will present some examples of how archivists with any level of technical comfort might find this documentation useful for themselves or when communicating with their hosting provider, developer, or IT staff. Presented at the 2023 ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum as part of the session "ArchivesSpace Documentation Discussion."Item Consciously Editing Finding Aids at UMD Libraries(2022-05-05) Caringola, LizPresented at the 2022 Maryland Library Association/Delaware Library Association Conference in Cambridge, Maryland, as part of the session "Metadata and Cultural Memory: Investigating Models of Equitable and Inclusive Metadata Creation for Maryland History.”Item Consciously Editing SCUA’s Finding Aids(2021-06-03) Caringola, Liz; Frisch, Hannah; Stranieri, MarcellaThe phrase “conscious editing” was first used by archivists at UNC-Chapel Hill to describe their work “to re-envision our descriptive practice so that whiteness is no longer the presumed default, language in our description products is inclusive and accessible, and our description does not obscure collection material that documents the lives of enslaved people.” Students in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) have been working from home over the past year to evaluate and improve archivist-created description in SCUA’s finding aids to be more inclusive. In the first part of the project, students read all of SCUA’s finding aids published on the Archival Collections website and applied a rating scale to indicate how the archival description could be improved and the nature of the needed edits. In April, students began to update the finding aids using guidelines such as the “Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources,” the Conscious Style Guide, and many more. This presentation will summarize the results of the finding aid audit and propose new conscious editing guidelines that will be written into SCUA’s archival processing manual.