Critical Connections is a day-long symposium that is open to all PUL staff. It will take place in the Treehouse in Lewis Library.

The symposium focuses on inclusive and reparative description and content mediation for collections. As we are hoping for active participation by all attendees, the day will include presentations by multiple PUL staff as well as a talk by Princeton Art Museum staff, and multiple discussion sessions. The event will also include a keynote address by Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, Dr. Tonia Sutherland. Please note that lunch and snacks will be provided. 

Please register below to attend Critical Connections by May 31. 

Current list of presentations:

• User Experience of Content Mediation Features, Amy C. Vo (Special Collections)
• Challenges and Opportunities: Establishing a Reparative Cataloging Working Group at Princeton University Art Museum, Kelly Flaherty and Frances Lloyd-Baynes (Art Museum)
• Harmful Content Working Group, Faith Charlton (Special Collections)
• LBGTQ+ Inclusive Cataloging with the Homosaurus, Sal Hamerman and Sara Howard (Cataloging and Metadata Services and Collections and Access Services)
• Place Names as Reparative Metadata, Beck Davis and Bess Sadler (Metadata and Enterprise Operations & Research Data and Statistical Services)
• Closing the Gap: Review of Controlled Subject Vocabularies for Ephemera in Figgy, Gabrielle Winkler, Ellen Ambrosone, Kim Leaman (Collections and Access Services and the Office of the Deputy Dean of Libraries)
• “The words to say it." From literary warrants to a new semantics of inclusive resource description, Lidia Santarelli (Cataloging and Metadata Services)
• Leverage the power of controlled vocabulary in discovering indigenous resources, Minjie Chen (Cataloging and Metadata Services)
• Discovery of Indigenous Publication Records via Geology Library Tools, Emily Wild (Data, Research, and Teaching)
• Her Book at Princeton, Emma Sarconi (Special Collections)
• Reframing Immigrant Identity in Cataloging: A Reparative Approach, Hassan Mortada (Cataloging and Metadata Services)
• Racial slurs in childrens’ books, and other unexpected hazards of digitization, Beth Haas (Digital Studio)
• Cross-team Efforts to Address Biased Search Results in PUL Discovery Systems, Trey Pendragon, Kate Lynch, and Kevin Reiss (Office of the Deputy Dean of Libraries)
• Woman Life Freedom Movement: Iran 2022-2023, Gilda Modjtahedi and Deborah Schlein (Collections and Access Services)
• Languages: Diversity, Equity, and the Power of ISO 639-3, Maria Gorbunova and Hassan Mortada (Cataloging and Metadata Services)