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Section updates

Announcing the Release of Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0

An update from SAA’s Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards.

August 15, 2022

Archival Labor

Emotional Labor and Descriptive Practices in the Archives

Taylor Wolford discusses how processing an animal rights and welfare collection at the NC State University Libraries led to a graduate research project investigating emotional labor, trauma, and the use of content warnings in archives.

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022

Archival Labor

Challenging Connections: The Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project

Molly Kamph discusses the impacts of contract labor, project timelines, and external circumstance while working on the Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project, a complex, grant-funded project at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).

July 14, 2022July 14, 2022

Section updates

An Update on TS-DACS’s Principles Project 

The Technical Subcommittee for Describing Archives: A Content Standard gives an update on their efforts to update the standard to fully align with its new Statement of Principles.

June 30, 2022

Archival Labor

The Toll and Journey of Triggering Content

April Rodriguez discusses the emotional labor of working with the Minnesota GLBT Movement papers, and preliminary efforts to create content warnings for researchers at the Minnesota Historical Society.

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

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