Presented by Shira Greer, LIS student at UNC Chapel Hill.
In recent years, archivists have expanded their approach to working with donors, students, and researchers to include trauma-informed care and an acknowledgement that working with archival materials can cause harm to both archival professionals and archival users. A holistic trauma-informed approach can create archival experiences based in collaboration, mutuality, and empowerment. Using Rebecca Tolley’s six guiding principles of trauma-informed approaches in library services, this presentation will analyze how the University of Richmond’s Race & Racism Project addressed trauma for archival workers participating in the summer fellowship program between 2017 and 2019. The project sought to create a digital collection of archival material and oral histories to address the university’s history, with undergraduate student workers driving the project’s research agenda. This presentation will demonstrate how the project worked to find a transparent and supportive path through potential harm for students delving into racist institutional history at a predominantly White institution.
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