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Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections
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How do you manage the expectations of donors, administrators, and the public about collecting and facilitating access to materials with complex creators, content, or histories? Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections will convene important conversations among Special Collections librarians, archivists, and others who work with these challenges on a regular basis to reach community-oriented solutions. Instead of formal presentations, this unconference will feature in-depth discussions and other interactions around themes of interest to participants. Sessions will be set up with an introduction to the theme followed by discussions in break-out sessions. It is hoped this gathering will lead to the development of best practices that can serve as a guide for ASERL libraries into the future.
Conference Schedule (see WORD format)
Risky Business: The Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Curatorial Practice in Special Collections
| Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
| 8:30am | Registration Opens / Coffee service – Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Emory University
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| 9:00am | Soft-Open with Tours of Emory Exhibits spaces and services
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| 10:00am | Break / Coffee refresh
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| 10:30am | Welcome Remarks / Event Overview / Keynote Introduction – Cristina Favretto (University of Miami) & Laura Micham (Duke University)
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| 10:45am | Keynote: “Creating Beloved Community: Employing Radical Empathy in our Memory Work Practices” Holly Smith, College Archivist, Spelman College
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| 11:30am | Q&A with Holly Smith
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| 11:45am | Lunch Break (provided)
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| 12:45pm | First Breakout sessions
1.1 University-Community Relations: How to navigate collections that offend members of their community? How can we promote engagement with collections when doing so may be perceived as “celebrating” problematic views held by individuals or organizations documented in the collection/archive? 1.2 Working with Donors & Development staff: How to handle differing priorities of administrators, funders, and curators? 1.3 Building Diverse Collections: Kick-Off Comments by: Holly Smith (Spelman College). TEACHING & LEARNING STUDIO, 10th Floor.
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| 1:45pm | Break
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| 2:00pm | Second Breakout Sessions
2.1 Ethical University-Community Relations 2.2 Managing the Stagecraft of Donor Interactions 2.3 Building Diverse Collections: How can we support community archives and connecting collections housed at other institutions?
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| 3:00pm | Break
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| 3:15pm | Reconvene / Report-out from Break-out Sessions. Facilitated by Cristina Favretto & Laura Micham
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| 4:15pm | Recess for the day
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| 5:30pm – 7:00pm | Reception – Solarium / Community Center of South Decatur |
| Friday, August 11, 2023 | |
| 8:30am | Light Breakfast – Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Emory University
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| 9:00am | Coffee & Conversation: Dean’s Thinking about Tricky Situations
· María R. Estorino, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 10:00am | Break |
| 10:20am | Dean & Development Officer Panel: Experiences with Juggling Competing Demands
· Melissa Penland, Senior Associate Vice President of Development, Clemson University · Deirdre Scaggs, Associate Dean for Research and Discovery, and Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, University of Kentucky · Lisa Macklin, Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian, Emory University
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| 11:20am | Reconvene as a full group: What’s next? Facilitated by Elaina Norlin (ASERL)
· What themes/commonalities have emerged? · What areas are ready for best practices to be documented? · Identify working groups for future activities
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| 11:45am | Closing Remarks / Wrap-Up / Farewell (Elaina Norlin, Cristina Favretto, Laura Micham)
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| 12:00pm | Adjourn / Depart
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