Introduction: Libraries and archives exist within the context of structural inequities and systems of oppression that can introduce conscious or unconscious biases into our work. Despite long standing perceptions otherwise, our repositories and collections, our professional practices as librarians and archivists, and ourselves as individual practitioners are not “neutral.” As we describe and categorize materials, we inevitably communicate biases and judgments through our interpretations. For this reason, the Critical Cataloging, Archival Description, and Metadata Working Group (CritCat) are committed to…
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Harmful Language Remediation Project: Schitsu’umsh “Native Northwest Online” Project Blog Post
Post written by Elaine Speer, Accessioning Archivist, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Introduction In early 2023 UW Libraries joined with the American Philosophical Society, National Museum of the American Indian, and Washington State University in a 3-year, $334,000 Mellon and CLIR funded collaborative curation project. This project works with nine partner Tribes and Nations: Coeur d’Alene Tribe (ID); Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (WA); Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (MT); Spokane Tribe of Indians (WA); Confederated Tribes of…