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@Federation_Bot 6 mo. ago

Assez fan du concept de "Caswell test" pour inciter les chercheureuses qui parlent d'archives à citer davantage d'archivistes https://orb.binghamton.edu/english_fac/3/

La slide est de la médiéviste Bridget Whearty, inspirée par un article de Michelle Caswell : https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bn4v1fk

Slide d'une présentation Powerpoint avec du texte en anglais sur fond violet. La slide lit:
The Caswell Test—an extension of the Tansey Test by and for academics
When we write about libraries and archives and especially
when we want fo write about “the archive,” we must...
1: have at least 2 ARCHIVISTS and/or LIBRARIANS in our argument,
who
2 : appear not just as support staff in paratextual "thank you' notes
but as valued interlocutors and intellectual equals in the main body
of our arguments, and who
3 : we don't just talk about, but we talk with and listen to - i.e., we
read and cite more librarians’ and archivists’ own publications, just
like we read and cite other valued experts and authorities. — Slide d'une présentation Powerpoint avec du texte en anglais sur fond violet. La slide lit: The Caswell Test—an extension of the Tansey Test by and for academics When we write about libraries and archives and especially when we want fo write about “the archive,” we must... 1: have at least 2 ARCHIVISTS and/or LIBRARIANS in our argument, who 2 : appear not just as support staff in paratextual "thank you' notes but as valued interlocutors and intellectual equals in the main body of our arguments, and who 3 : we don't just talk about, but we talk with and listen to - i.e., we read and cite more librarians’ and archivists’ own publications, just like we read and cite other valued experts and authorities.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bn4v1fk

The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB)

The Caswell Test, single slide

This poster/slide comes from a larger conference presentation, "Invisible in 'The Archive': Archivists, Librarians, and The Caswell Test," given at the 53rd International Congress for Medieval Studies, on May 11, 2018. That larger paper argues that medievalists and humanities scholars more broadly have erred in writing and theorizing about "the archive" as an abstract, depopulated space, untouched by human labor and laborers. Building on the work of archivist M. L. Caswell, it proposes that humanities scholars adopt "The Caswell Test." Based on the famous "Bechdel Test" for gender representation in media, as well as "The Tansey Test" of archivists, "The Caswell Test"--reproduced on this poster/slide gives humanities scholars three steps to follow in order to ensure that when we write about libraries and archives we are not engaged in the problematic erasure of archivists and librarians.

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