Archivists Jennifer Coggins and Monika Lehman—with fellow members of the Reparative Archival Description (RAD) Working Group —work to improve the quality, accuracy, and accessibility of the library’s archival records. As co-chairs of RAD, they and the seven other members identify harmful or outdated language in the library’s vast repository of finding aids—the tools that describe the contents and organization of a collection. RAD’s goal is to update, contextualize, and improve the accuracy of the object descriptions in the finding aids, which scholars rely upon while conducting their research
