[Ohiodig] FW: MACinars: "Setting the Table for Everybody: Accessibility in Archival Practices" 2025 Annual Meeting Session Encore -

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MACinars: 2025 Annual Meeting Session Encore - “Setting the Table for Everybody: Accessibility in Archival Practices”

Thursday, February 19, 2026

11am-12:30pm EST / 10am-11:30am CST

Missed this session in Minneapolis or weren’t able to attend the Annual Meeting at all?  You’re in luck!  At the request of the MAC Education Committee, 2025 MAC Annual Meeting attendees identified this session in the post-conference survey as well-suited for a virtual encore presentation.

Please register at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_clAobJPdTNmvHfZqpgq55A<http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/4b0575be-7b69-4ed2-ba35-c6393373c40b/1>

Description: Like any good hotdish, accessibility is made up of many different ingredients. And, like any good hotdish, there’s no single definitive recipe. Rather than framing accessibility as a set of steps or a list of ingredients, this panel frames it as a suite of potential actions we can take to enact our values around access for our users, ourselves, and our colleagues. Coming from a range of institutions and backgrounds, presenters will examine accessibility from multiple angles by:

  *   Exploring the intersection of disability with higher education and the job market, focusing on the structural and societal ways that disabled people are excluded and disempowered, whether that’s navigating school programs, internships, or job precarity and focusing on ways to lower the barrier to entry for archival workers with disabilities whose perceived “replaceability” gives institutions less incentive to accommodate them;

  *   Looking at professional standards and regulations as carrots and cudgels toward advancing accessibility, including ADA Title II and SAA’s Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities;

  *   Making complex digital collections accessible, looking at both the systems being used along with the items themselves;

  *   Demystifying accessibility best practices in the classroom; and

  *   Driving a cultural shift toward greater accessibility within our institutions and broader profession.
You will come away from this session with an increased understanding of how accessibility can be improved in archives, resources for further learning, and strategies/ideas/steps to implement in your home institution.

Presenters:
Sarah Barsness University of Minnesota (session chair)
             Stefanie Hunker, Bowling Green State University
             Marcella Lees, Art Institute of Chicago
             Lydia Tang, Lyrasis


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