Professional Identity and Collaboration in Archival Work
Explore the importance of professional identity and collaboration in the archival field, featuring sessions and presentations discussing inclusive practices, knowledge gaps, and climate surveys within the profession. Discover how archivists are navigating challenges and shaping their roles in libraries and institutions.
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Focus Session 1: Professional Identity Nance McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together, 2015 by Jeannette A. Bastian, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Donna Webber https://americanarchivist.org/doi/abs/10.17723/0360-9081-79.2.472 "Archives, History, and Technology: Prologue and Possibilities for SAA and the Archival Community, American Archivist, Chicago: Society of American Archivists, Spring 2018. https://americanarchivist.org/doi/full/10.17723/0360- 9081-81.1.9 Radical Collaboration, guest editor for issue devoted to radical collaboration, contributor: Radical Collaboration and Research Data Management: An Introduction, Radical Collaboration: An Archival View, and Forward Together in Research Library Issues, no. 296 (2018) https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.296 Radical Collaboration session at SAA 2019 Research Forum Building blocks for this session
In professional and work contexts, it is (now) a reasonable expectation for professional identity to be part of our understanding of inclusion so when someone shares their professional identity we should acknowledge and honor that with established norms like using the words as shared, remembering to use the words, remembering to be inclusive across professions (who s at the table?), and so on. Professional identity awareness Included on the climate survey we did that is discussed in presentation 3 of this session
Three presentations: Reappraising Our Professional Identity: Addressing the Knowledge Gap with Tenure and Promotion for Academic Archivists Perspectives on Precarity: A Multifaceted Look at the Status of Project Archivists My employer does not have a job title for archivist: A Climate Survey of Professional Identity, Change, and Perception within the Archival Field Exploring professional identity for archivists One poster: P3. Cross Functional Collaboration: The Placement of Archival Processing in ARL Libraries
