The Reparative Archival Description Working Group (RADWG) is launching a new series of open office hours on Zoom for members of the Harvard Library community working with archival collections. During these sessions library staff will have the opportunity to ask questions and share information about reparative archival description.  

Open office hours offer an informal, welcoming space for members of the Harvard Library community to ask questions about specific collections or about reparative archival description more generally. Topics can include, but are not limited to, questions around outdated or offensive terminology in legacy finding aid description, concerns with how to address challenging content within collections, issues with controlled vocabulary options, etc. Members of the RADWG representing different Harvard repositories will be available during the office hours for anyone wishing to drop in.  

General information about the RADWG and reparative archival description at Harvard is available at the Joint Processing Guidelines website.