Online/Virtual Event

Tuesday, July 9th 2024 from 11:00am to 12:00pm

See a recording of this webinar here.

Indebted to the work of Black women writers Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and Tricia Hersey, and the continued efforts of library workers from Sandy Berman to Emily Drabinski, this session from Bailey Hoffner explores why slowing down is not only a viable approach to metadata justice work, but the only sustainable approach allowing us the restful space necessary to: see, understand, and subvert the structural discrimination built into our information systems; imagine and create new systems; truly trust ourselves.

Viewers can expect to: 
- Understand the necessary steps toward creating an individual and/or group framework for metadata justice, including the essential place of a non-punitive grievance process. 
- Identify how the persistent fear of scrutiny can contribute to our inability to slow down, if we don’t take the essential first steps of grounding ourselves in our principles
- Assess if they have taken the time and the care to truly consider the impacts of their work

About our presenter:

Bailey Hoffner is an artist, writer, mother, partner, and PDA autistic, white woman. She currently serves as the Metadata Librarian for Digital Resources and Discovery Services at Oklahoma State's Edmon Low Library. In her own research and creative work, she is interested in investigating ways in which metadata and descriptive practices have the power to uphold or dismantle the structural racism, sexism, ableism, and discrimination inherent in their creation and use, with a particular interest in the representation of autistic experience in library work and library metadata.