ContentsIntroduction:Essential Form Features and Functions:How the Form Looks: How UW Librarians and Archivists use the Feedback Form: Lessons Learned: Accountability: 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……
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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 ContentsIntroductionProject Scope and TeamSolutionsFurther Information 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……
Harmful-language Remediation Pilot Project: Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899
ContentsI. IntroductionII. Project scope III. Workflow and communication IV. SolutionsV. Challenges and next stepsVI. Further information I. Introduction In Winter 2021, the University of Washington (UW) Libraries launched the CritCat group, composed of five staff members with backgrounds in cataloging and archival work. This group, with input from colleagues across the Libraries, developed the UW Libraries Critical Cataloging and Archival Description Statement, addressing harmful language in catalog records and finding aids. The statement outlines our efforts to remediate harmful language and provides……
Harrison L. Caldwell papers
The inaugural submission to our feedback form for users to submit language they find offensive or harmful in UW Libraries catalog records, archival finding aids, or digital collections is from our Health Sciences and Media Cataloger, who wrote: I am cataloging the Harrison L. Caldwell papers, an African American civic leader and school principal. The online finding aid unfortunately still refers to him as a Negro; it would be nice if we could change that to African American sooner rather……