Describing Absence The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries and Archives

These are the speaker notes of a talk I gave at the New Hampshire Archives Group Spring 2022 Workshop on [[May 17th, 2022]] Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to my presentation when you could just leave and go outside. My name is Jay L. Colbert, and today I’ll be presenting “Describing Absence: The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries & Archives” Advanced notice that this presentation will mention suicide and potentially upsetting language....

May 17, 2022 · 17 min · jay l. colbert