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Monday, August 5 • 10:30am - 11:45am
605 - Discovering the Hidden: Making LGBTQ Collections More Accessible to Researchers

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Presenters discuss how archivists make LGBTQ collections more accessible to researchers by reviewing processing and cataloging challenges, including biases that suppress information; the conundrum of describing LGBTQ collections using 21st century descriptors that the creators would not have used; the importance of how descriptions affect LGBTQ community members' perceptions of their own identities and history; and allowing LGBTQ communities to describe their own documents, thereby returning the power usually assigned to the archivist to the originating community.

Linda J. Long: The Politics of Archives: Who Gets to Write History?
Harrison Apple: Oral History as Provenance: Processing Nightclub Video without a Creator
Erin Baucom: How Language and Visible History Affects Identity Formation in the LGBTQ Community
Elisa Landaverde: LGBTQ Terminology: Now and Then

Facilitator: Linda J. Long
Facilitators
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Linda J. Long

Curator of Manuscripts, University of Oregon Libraries
Linda Long is the Curator of Manuscripts in Special Collections and University Archives in the University of Oregon Libraries.

Speakers
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Erin Baucom

Digital Archivist, University of Montana
Erin Baucom is the Digital Archivist in the Archives and Special Collections department in the University of Montana's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library.
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Eli Landaverde (they/them)

Special Collections LGBTQ+ Librarian, Michigan State University
Eli Landaverde is the Special Collections LGBTQ+ Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries. As part of their role in Special Collections, they curate, oversee, and promote the LGBTQ+ collection. Since 2018, they have led a web archiving initiative for MSU Libraries Special... Read More →

Monday August 5, 2019 10:30am - 11:45am CDT
203/204, [Level 2]
  Education Session

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