Yale Archival Reading Group (YARG)

 

This wiki is intended as a forum for ongoing discussion of the ideas, themes, and issues that arise from reading group meetings. All are welcome to contribute.

 

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Upcoming Meetings

Meeting #90: Archival Accessioning Best Practices March 27, 2024

 

Past Meetings

Meeting #89: Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities February 16, 2024

Meeting #88: Lived Experiences of Disability January 29, 2024

Meeting #87: A Green New Deal for Archives November 14, 2023

Meeting #86: Centering the Margins in Digital Project Planning October 5, 2023

Meeting #85: Findings from the Building a National Archival Finding Aid Network Project August 23, 2023

Meeting #84: Summer Conferences Recap July 31, 2023

Meeting #83: Methodologies for Archival Impact Studies June 26, 2023

Meeting #82: Impact of Item-Level Description in Finding Aids May 24, 2023

Meeting #81: Digital Discovery and Access Systems April 21, 2023

Meeting #80: Ethical Concerns in Social Meeting Archiving November 18, 2022

Meeting #79: Toward a Critical Turn in Library UX January 24, 2023

Meeting #78: Archival Discretion, July 29, 2022

Meeting #77: Dickinson's Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center June 27, 2022

Meeting #76: ACRL/RBMS Draft Guidelines Regarding Security and Theft in Special Collections May 25, 2022

Meeting #75: The Politics of Being an Archival Donor April 26, 2022

Meeting #74: Core Best Practices for Academic Interviews March 29, 2022

Meeting #73: Challenging Euro-Centric Archival Spaces February 22, 2022

Meeting #72: A Good Jobs Strategy for Libraries January 13, 2021

Meeting #71: The Value of a Note November 29, 2021

Meeting #70: Praxis for the People September 27, 2021

Meeting #69: SAA 2021 Recap August 17, 2021

Meeting #68: The House Archives Built July 28, 2021

Meeting #67: Special Collections and Disability Studies June 24, 2021

Meeting #66: The Total Cost of Stewardship April 29, 2021

Meeting #65: Repatriation March 22, 2021

Meeting #64: Cultural Humility and Archival Description February 12, 2021

Meeting #63: The Historical Hazards of Finding Aids October 28, 2020

Meeting #62: Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives, part 2 September 29, 2020

Meeting #61: SAA 2020 Recap September 3, 2020

Meeting #60: Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives August 24, 2020

Meeting #59: Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation July 23, 2020

Meeting #58: Archiving While Black June 30, 2020

Meeting #57: Digital Preservation in the Age of Climate Change May 29, 2020

Meeting #56: Hidden Archives April 6, 2020

Meeting #55: Beyond Control Canceled 

Meeting #54: "Do Better" - Love(,) Us February 20, 2020

Meeting #53: Anti-Racist Description Resources January 27, 2020

Meeting #52: Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care October 28, 2019

Meeting #51: Summoning the Ghosts September 30, 2019

Meeting #50: SAA 2019 Recap August 16, 2019

Meeting #49: Moving Toward a Reparative Archive May 24, 2019

Meeting #48: NEA Spring 2019 Recap April 18, 2019

Meeting #47: Rethinking Creation February 28

Meeting #46: Extensible Processing Management December 10, 2018

Meeting #45: Archival Literacy Competencies for Undergraduate History Majors October 29, 2018

Meeting #44: SAA 2018 Recap August 30, 2018

Meeting #43: Learning to Listen July 26, 2018

Meeting #42: Vocational Awe and Librarianship June 28, 2018

Meeting #41: Mobilizing Records: Re-Framing Archival Description to Support Human Rights May 24, 2018

Meeting #40: Embedding into Systems: Infrastructure, Hospitality, and Difference April 18, 2018

Meeting #39: NEA Spring 2018 April 4, 2018

Meeting #38: Revolutionizing the Archival Record Through Rap January 25, 2018

Meeting #37: Educating for the Archival Multiverse November 29, 2017

Meeting #36: SAA 2017 Recap August 17, 2017

Meeting #35: The Revised DACS Principles June 12, 2017

Meeting #34: The SNAC Project May 23, 2017

Meeting #33: Fierce Urgencies Breakout Discussion May 4, 2017

Meeting #32: More Honest Description February 27, 2017

Meeting #31: Records in Contexts December 22, 2016

Meeting #30: Maintainers November 17, 2016

Meeting #29: Radical Empathy in the Archives October 7, 2016

Meeting #28: Reconceiving archival work August 11, 2016

Meeting #27: Cultural heritage, Technology, and Organizational Culture February 25, 2015

Meeting #26: The Archivist as Cartographer

Meeting #25: The Right to Be Forgotten, Accountability, and Archivists

Meeting #24: What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library (September 22, 2011)

Meeting #23: Seek and You May Find: Successful Search in Online Finding Aid Systems

Meeting #22: Ambient Functions and Social Aspects of Contextual Control

Meeting #21: MPLP Beyond Processing

Meeting #20: Archives and Civic Engagement

Meeting #19: Critical Thinking Skills and Historical Research Instruction

Meeting #18: Envisioning the Archival Commons

Meeting #17:  The 21st Century Academic Library and Special Collections

Meeting #16: Material Culture and Archives

Meeting #15: Archival Principles and Cultural Diversity

Meeting #14: Records of Dubious Research Value

Meeting #13: An Overview of Archives in Popular Culture

Meeting #12: Documentation Strategy Revisited

Meeting #11: Remembering the Future

Meeting #10: Archival Reference

Meeting #9: Diversity in the Archival Profession

Meeting #8: Deconstructing Archival Description

Meeting #7: Archives of the People, by the People, for the People

Meeting #6: Archives and Social Justice

Meeting #5: The Afterlife of Performance

Meeting #4: Privacy and Personal Papers

Meeting #3: Archival Repatriation

Meeting #2: Reopening Archives

Meeting #1: Picking Our Text

 

Areas of Interest

July 2016 survey results and suggested readings