Academic Archives Research Articles

The Relationship between Circadian Rhythm and Cancer Disease.

The circadian clock regulates biological cycles across species and is crucial for physiological activities and biochemical reactions, including cancer onset and development. The interplay between the circadian rhythm and cancer involves regulating cell division, DNA repair, immune function, hormonal balance, and the potential for chronotherapy. This highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy circadian rhythm for cancer prevention and treatment. This article investigates the complex relationship between the circadian rhythm and cancer, exploring how disruptions to the internal clock may contribute to tumorigenesis and influence cancer progression. Numerous databases are utilized to conduct searches for articles, such as NCBI, MEDLINE, and Scopus. The keywords used throughout the academic archives are "circadian rhythm", "cancer", and "circadian clock". Maintaining a healthy circadian cycle involves prioritizing healthy sleep habits and minimizing disruptions, such as consistent sleep schedules, reduced artificial light exposure, and meal timing adjustments. Dysregulation of the circadian clock gene and cell cycle can cause tumor growth, leading to the need to regulate the circadian cycle for better treatment outcomes. The circadian clock components significantly impact cellular responses to DNA damage, influencing cancer development. Understanding the circadian rhythm's role in tumor diseases and their therapeutic targets is essential for treating and preventing cancer. Disruptions to the circadian rhythm can promote abnormal cell development and tumor metastasis, potentially due to immune system imbalances and hormonal fluctuations.

Ciencia, mar y poder. Historia sociopolítica del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela (1958-1969)

This work consists of a socio-political history of the Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela (IOV), a research center with which the field of Marine Sciences began its process of academic institutionalization in Venezuela. The initial decade (1958-1969) of the institute meant a start and boom of research in the Venezuelan seas, even in the context of controversies and confrontations for the control and direction of the institute, which in turn were directly influenced by the Venezuelan political climate of the time and because the IOV was also the academic center that made was possible to create the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) in 1958 in the city of Cumaná (Sucre state, Venezuela), a higher education center created in 1958 in the city of Cumaná (Sucre state, Venezuela), Venezuela), a center of higher studies created by the new political elite of the nascent Venezuelan representative democracy. The analysis was based on primary documents from the archive of Pedro Roa Morales, academic archives of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and the UDO and the Oriente Universitario (UDO’s newspaper in the 1960s). These are letters, minutes, telegrams and manuscripts that were made available to us by Evelyn Zoppi de Roa - Pedro Roa’s widow - in 2017. As a university project that summoned scientific and political leaders, the UDO was born as a space where science converged with political- partisan practice through ideological loyalties and confrontations, features that did not take long to appear in the IOV. Thus, politicians (and politics) prevailed over scientists even in an academic institution, putting in check the project that gave rise to it.

FAIRness of research data in humanities

Research data are considered the primary result and output of scientific research, and sharing and reusing data are key aspects of the transition to open science on a European level. However, there are many unanswered questions regarding research data management, such as understanding which data might be shared and under what conditions, who might share them, or even what research data is (Borgman, 2012). In the humanities, research data are among the most diverse of all scientific disciplines because nearly any data on human activity can be considered research data, such as newspapers or photographs. Thus, the boundary between data and publication in this context is often quite vague (Borgman, 2008; Thoegersen, 2018).This paper aims to examine and answer several research questions related to datasets in the field of humanities. The first research question will analyse the types of research data represented in humanities (1). In literature, a consensus has yet to be reached on the definition, and often, research data in the humanities are used as an umbrella term that includes different types of sources for research. DARIAH-DE defines research data in humanities as all sources/materials and results collected, written, described, and/or evaluated in the context of a research and research questions in the field of human and cultural sciences, presented in machine-readable form for archiving, citation and further use. This definition aims to account for the particular characteristics of human-scientific research and the resulting heterogeneity of the underlying data (DARIAH- DE, 2021). For the purpose of this research, the authors have chosen to adopt the DARIAH- DE definition of research data which will be the base for determining types of data represented in humanities. The research was conducted for humanities fields, including philosophy, theology, philology, history, art history, art science, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology, religious studies, and interdisciplinary humanities science. An analysis of datasets published in institutional and thematic repositories in the field of humanities in Croatia and Europe was conducted using platforms such as Zenodo, Digital Academic Archives and Repositories (DABAR), CLARIN, CROSSDA, and DARIAH. The research aimed to identify the most prevalent data types in the humanities found in repositories. In a study on the storage of research data from the humanities in repositories, Buddenbohm et al. (2016) note that a culture of sharing and reusing research data has not yet been established; although research data are, to some extent, stored in repositories, they are difficult to find. In light of this, the second research question will examine the extent to which datasets in the field of humanities are represented in repositories in open access and under which licences (2). The third research question will examine to what extent research data align with FAIR principles (3). The evaluation of dataset FAIRness will be conducted using the principles outlined in the Wilkinson et al. (2016) FAIR guidelines and Routledge Open Research data guidelines, as mentioned in Grant (2022) for FAIR humanities data. In addition, based on FAIR guidelines, authors will provide a practical framework for managing research data in humanities, which can be used to assess the quality of research datasets. The paper will present the types of research data in humanities that are represented in repositories, assess their level of openness, licensing, and alignment with FAIR data principles.

Assessment of university archives management practices

Purpose Archives and records are important resources for individuals, organizations and the country. The academic archives are created and maintained for the effective execution of university educational and corporate functions. The archives management practices in universities are being studied in the developed countries; however, a scarcity of empirical research is observed in the context of developing countries, for instance, Pakistan. Thus, the purpose of this study is to assess the archives management practices performed in the archival units of University of the Punjab (UoP), Lahore, in association with the successful execution of university educational functions. Design/methodology/approach A structured survey questionnaire was developed to collect responses from the record-keepers and archives monitoring staff using a complete enumerative (census) approach. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS 23.0 in addition to structural equation modeling (SEM) run in AMOS 22v. Findings The findings of this study revealed an inconsistency regarding the policies and procedures, arrangement and filing records and access and retrieval due to the practice of self-developed procedures in the UoP archival units. Although archives management practices have significant impact on university academic as well as research-related functions, however, there is lack of centralized and standardized practices for archiving records in the UoP. Lack of professional/trained staff and policy document are key limitations in building systematic and standardized archives management system in academic intuitions, particularly in the UoP. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first empirical study in Pakistan that has explored archives management practices used in university archives. It also contributes theoretically and methodologically through the underpinnings of archival principles in association with university functions and developing a validated scale to explore archives management practices in universities. The findings of this study may be helpful for the concerned bodies, university administrations and archives managers to establish, manage and improve the academic archives systematically.

Teachers’ Well-Being Levels by Gender and Marital Status: A Meta-Analysis Study

The main purpose of the current study is to reveal the effect of gender and marital status variables on teachers’ well-being levels. The databases named Higher Education Institution Thesis Center, ProQuest, EBSCOhost and Google Scholar, National Academic Network and Information Center (Academic Archive of Turkey, National Collective Catalogue, Journal Park Academic) were searched and 62 studies for the gender variable and 34 studies for the marital status variables were included in the scope of the meta-analysis. Sample sizes of the studies included in the research is as follows: according to the gender variable, sample size is 25088, and according to the marital status, sample size is 14705. The Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Version 2.2.064 (CMA) program was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the analysis completed, it was observed that there was no publication bias in the individual studies in the study for all variables. As a result of the analysis made according to the random effects model, it was determined that the overall effect size of the gender variable (d=0.05) and the effect size of the marial status variabel (d=-0.12) on teachers’ well-being levels were weak and insignificant. As a result of moderator analyses for all variables, statistically significant inconclusive results have been achieved. When the findings of the research were evaluated in general, it was seen that the characteristics of teachers such as gender and marital status did not have an effect on teachers’ well-being levels or they were at a very weak level. When the effect of research characteristics on research findings is examined; it was seen that the type of grade, publication type, school type, teacher branch, the region where the research was conducted and the gender of the researcher did not have a moderator effect.

How much are the IMRaD structures of diploma theses and original research articles similar?

Objective: To investigate how much the IMRaD structure of diploma theses defended in graduate Study of Dental Medicine at University of Split School of Medicine is compatible with that of the original research articles, considering the proportions of IMRaD sections – Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.Materials and methods: 150 diploma theses defended between 2016 and 2021 were collected from the Digital Academic Archives and Repositories (DABAR) and compared with 150 original research articles published in five dental scientific journals during the same period. The length of each IMRaD section in diploma theses and original research articles was measured using the Word Count in MS Office Word and expressed as the number of words. The overall length of IMRaD structure was calculated by adding the length of each IMRaD section. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and linear regression.Results: On average, the overall length of IMRaD structure of diploma theses was longer than that of the original research articles. On average, the longest section in diploma theses was the Introduction (occupied almost 50% the overall length of IMRaD structure). In the average original research article, the Introduction section occupied about 15% of the overall length of IMRaD structure, while the Discussion was the longest section. The highest correlation with the overall length of IMRaD structure in diploma theses was found for Introduction (R=0.82; R2=0.67; P<0.001). In original research articles, the Discussion section was most highly correlated with the overall length of IMRaD structure (R=0.62; R2=0.38; P<0.001).Conclusion: The IMRaD structure of diploma theses defended in graduate Study of Dental Medicine in Split differs from the structure of original research articles published in dental scientific journals. Diploma theses have a comparatively longer introduction and shorter discussion section than original research articles.

Reflecting on the Synergy Between Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication and the Coronavirus Memory Archive: An Intrinsic Case Study.

The coursebook-centered approach adopted by the Hellenic Open University's Master's program in TEIL/TEFL has lost momentum during the coronavirus lockdown periods. This study addresses synergies between institutional policy and involved participants through the experience of an EFL teacher with a Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication-based assignment about the online archivability of teaching and learning reflections. Relying on her study journal, the EFL teacher proposed a reflection-based inquiry into the compilation of a student-generated coronavirus memory archive on the e-me digital platform. Three journaling spaces emerged in the context of teacher development: the physical, the digital and the academic archive. The results indicated the transformative effects that archival procedures have on the dominant training practices of a graduate-level TEFL program. This study holds implications for flipping a switch on the educator-educatee relationship, while examining how reflective teaching pedagogy assimilates the learners' creative response to remoteness.

Assessment of the quality of services of reception with risk classification in obstetrics: a scoping review protocol

IntroductionQuality assessment in the context of maternal health services in Brazil has been the object of study due to maternal mortality rates that remain high in the country, in addition...

Development of E-Digital Archives of the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Semarang

This research aims to develop Static and Inactive Archives at the Faculty of Economics into E-Digital Archives and conduct monitoring and evaluation. This study uses a development model (Research and Development). Monitoring and evaluation is carried out to find out the ease of implementing input and what obstacles are experienced when inputting E-Digital Archives. The results of the study show that the condition of archive management at the Faculty of Economics, especially static archives and inactive archives, is still in the process of being reorganized. The FE Record Center has organized manual archives consisting of cupboard A for accounting and financial records for 2013-2020, cupboard B for student and academic archives, cupboard C for general and personnel archives and mixed archives. For the development of e-digital archives, the results of monitoring and evaluation in the UNNES Digital Archive System show that up to October 31, 2022, 1,452 letters/archives have been uploaded, divided into dynamic, inactive and FE UNNES static archives

The degree course in psychology in Rome in the history of Italian psychology.

Italian academic psychology found its first location in the Anthropological Museum of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Rome, where in 1890 a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology was established. In 1905, the first three Chairs of Experimental Psychology at the Universities of Turin, Rome, and Naples were created. These were followed in the subsequent years by others, until 1930, in other academic institutions. After many years and a long period of crisis linked to the fascist regime, only after the World War II (WWII), with the rebirth of the country, did psychology gradually rebuild its status as a scientific discipline. Within this framework of the renewal of society and university studies, in 1971, two degree courses were instituted in Rome and Padua. Based on research in central and local academic archives and on an analysis of the secondary literature, the gestation phase of the 4-year degree course in Psychology, the progressive establishment of the Psychology Departments, and the 5-year reform of the courses up to the birth of the first Faculty of Psychology at an Italian university are reconstructed. The aim of this article is to propose a well-founded discontinuist historiographical reading of the process of sedimentation of psychological experimentation that, after being born in the Faculty of Sciences and later transferring to the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, also led to important developments in the Faculty of Education, with the recognition of an autonomous academic space of scientific discipline with a degree course, departments and finally the Faculty of Psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Learning From the United States?: Policy Transfer and the Development of Chinese Higher Education Since 1978

Purpose The paper tries to analyze the impact of the American higher education model on China's higher education since the reform and opening-up, enriching the research on policy learning in comparative education by adding a Sino-U.S. case. Design/Approach/Methods This study focuses on three cases of policy learning: undergraduate education reform, the transformation of polytechnic universities into comprehensive ones, and the introduction of the tenure-track system, using academic archives, oral interviews, and policy texts. Findings This study identifies several characteristics of policy learning. First, while the influence of the United States remains dominant, other countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and France have also become learning targets. Second, policy learning from the United States reflects the characteristics of selective adoption, suggesting that the foreign model is partially copied and reinterpreted in the Chinese context. Originality/Value Policy transfer is a classic theme of comparative education research. Although the Western model—and the U.S. model in particular—has had a profound impact on China's higher education reform, research on the impact of the U.S. model since 1978 is limited. This study addresses this gap.

Types of analysis of validation studies in nursing: scoping review

Objective. To identify and map the types of analysis in nursing validation studies.
 Methods. This is a scoping review with collection carried out in July 2020. The following data extraction indicators were considered: year of publication, country of origin, type of study, level of evidence, scientific references for validation and types of analyses. Data were collected in the following bases: U.S. National Library of Medicine, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, SCOPUS, COCHRANE, Web of Science, PSYCHINFO, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, CAPES Theses and Dissertation Portal, Education Resources Information Center, The National Library of Australia's Trobe, Academic Archive Online, DART-Europe E-Theses Portal, Electronic Theses Online Service, Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal, National ETD Portal, Theses Canada, Theses and dissertations from Latin America.
 Results. The sample consisted of 881 studies, with a predominance of articles (841; 95.5%), with a prevalence of publications in 2019 (152;17.2%), of Brazilian origin (377; 42.8%), of the methodological study type (352; 39.9%). Polit and Beck stood out as the methodological reference (207; 23.5%) and Cronbach's Alpha (421; 47.8%) as the statistical test. Regarding the type of analysis, the exploratory factor analysis and the content validation index stood out.
 Conclusion. The use of at least one method of analysis was evident in more than half of the studies, which implied the need to carry out several statistical tests in order to evaluate the validation of the instrument used and show its reliability

Personalised publication recommendation service for open-access digital archives

Increase in the number of open-access academic publications and open-access institutional academic archives led more researchers use these archives. No model offers personalised publication suggestions in academic archives. A central service architecture has been proposed towards personalised academic article recommendations for open-access digital archives. Thus, it has been possible to make personalised suggestions for open-access digital archives and enable researchers to discover new publications. A service based on the centralised micro-service architecture model was proposed in the study. Also, TF-IDF and article classification methods were used together for the personalised publication suggestion system. For the first time globally, the proposed method was used with 1464 real users in 49 open-access archives. F-measure success value was found to be higher than 0.8 for recommended publications.

Oral History, Donor Engagement, and the Cocreation of Knowledge in an Academic Archives

This article examines attempts at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC/ SCL), in Lubbock, Texas, to integrate its oral history program into collection acquisition, arrangement, description, and discovery processes. Beginning with the creation of a staff position dedicated to acquisition, and continuing through an evolution of job duties resulting from COVID-19, the SWC’s oral historians now not only facilitate collection acquisition through extensive relationship building but also engage donors during arrangement and description. Such reconceptions have led to new processes and workflows, wherein oral history has become an endeavour of collaborative knowledge creation and an enabler of a more democratic archives.

Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai

Reviewed by: Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai Justin R. Hunter (bio) Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (1941). Text and translation by Naoko Terauchi. World Arbiter, 2016. One CD (77 minutes). 19 pages of notes (English), 16 pages of notes (Japanese). (CD) $15.95. Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play is a compilation of music not likely heard outside of academic archives for some 80 years. In the pre– and immediate post–World War II era, many Japanese musicologists documented musics from throughout Japan in order to capture sounds thought to be in decline during those changing times. Equally important, these musicologists sought to present the unique qualities of Japanese traditional genres to the outside world. But much of this recorded material was lost or rests in archives, largely inaccessible to the general public. This CD compilation by Naoko Terauchi is a restoration project of recordings made during the 1940s, focusing on regional folk songs. As Terauchi writes, “Each song conveys a rich musical and lyrical expression closely related to local livelihoods and life styles” (7) from all over Japan. This is an extensive project compiling information and audio from the original recordings and from various archives. These recordings allow listeners to hear music of “unique historical importance and culturally valuable as a document of musical practices in traditional Japanese genres during wartime” (5). Indeed, Terauchi’s album highlights the music of commoners, not the elite musics or high art forms of urban centers, which were less at risk of loss. The folk tunes of the countryside reflect a time when the world had particular views about a militaristic nation gearing up for aggression and seeking to solidify a homogeneous and elevated position on the world stage. Terauchi’s compilation draws on the efforts of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkō- kai (KBS, International Organization for the Promotion of Culture), begun in the late 1930s. Forerunner of what is now the Japan Foundation, the KBS was created to promote cultural exchange between Japan and foreign countries. KBS produced Nihon Ongaku- shu (Album of Japanese music) as a compilation of various music genres recorded between 1941–42. Released as a 60- disc (120 sides) sound anthology arranged in five volumes, the set was intended to demonstrate the richness of Japan’s cultural practices. As Terauchi notes, [End Page 158] it is remarkable that this project was completed at all during such a turbulent time. Ethnomusicologists Tanabe Hisao (1883–1984) and Machida Kashō (1888–81)1 were part of the original project and played a major part in selecting the music included in Nihon Ongaku- shu. The original anthology included gagaku, koto, shamisen, and other elite genres as well as folk songs. The present CD, Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play, includes 24 tracks of folk songs from the original Nihon Ongaku- shu that represent nearly every region of Japan. The original anthology included only Japanese music—I suppose appropriately, albeit unjustly—and omitted music of Okinawans, the Ainu, and other minority groups. Each track is provided with a detailed description in the liner notes, published in English by World Arbiter but available in Japanese on arbiterrecords.org. The notes in both English and Japanese resonate with the KBS original intent to make Japan’s culture more accessible to the world. As sources for the notes, Terauchi draws on the KBS compilation and from a few subsequent collections, including the major project by Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK), and from the collections of ethnomusicologists Tanabe and Machida. Terauchi’s rich liner notes are full of regional information and historical accounts. In a few instances she comments on the present. The source material for the liner notes, as Terauchi notes, is a compilation in itself. Track 13, Nishiryō no uta is a group of three songs from Hokkaido. It is related to herring fishing practices in the port town of Otaru and includes the song Okiage ondo, which today is widely known as Sōran- bushi. The interrelations of each track, most containing more than one song, presents a truly...

#FromTheArchives: An Assessment of a Successful Social Media Program in an Academic Archives

ABSTRACT Academic archives can seem intimidating to the public at large. Accessing and enjoying their contents is, for some, a foreign experience. Even when archives leverage extensive fiscal and technological resources to make their materials available as well-organized, online digital collections, this perception often persists. In 2013, the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC) at Texas Tech University (TTU) began an extensive Web 2.0 outreach program designed to overcome that perception for researchers other than TTU students and faculty. Using social media allowed the SWC to creatively and successfully rethink and reframe connections to the nonresearcher public. This article identifies the origin and breadth of that success by walking through the implementation of a comprehensive social media outreach program and providing a qualitative and quantitative assessment of its success, with an eye toward how the SWC and other archives might reframe the use of social media in the future.

Radical Welcome in the Archives: What Does It Really Mean to Say “You're Welcome Here”?

Radical Welcome in the Archives: What Does It Really Mean to Say “You're Welcome Here”?

Inspiring a Passion for the Medieval in the Present: Student-led Activities with Manuscripts at Southeast Missouri State University

Inspiring a Passion for the Medieval in the Present:Student-led Activities with Manuscripts at Southeast Missouri State University Roxanne Dunn and Vicky McAlister The authors of this article collaborated at Southeast Missouri State University, a comprehensive, Midwestern regional university. Our goal was to engage students with the medieval period and to encourage them to draw similarities between the challenges of that period with modernity. Roxanne Dunn is an archivist and Vicky McAlister is a medieval historian. This article will demonstrate how working with medieval manuscripts in a classroom setting was able to prove the value and importance of humanities coursework while promoting and strengthening the institution's archival collections. Specifically, this paper explores how our collaboration led to the successful incorporation of medieval manuscripts into the classroom: first as "show-and-tell" class visits, then to active-learning hands-on activities, and finally to a student-led collection development activity where students were able to select medieval manuscripts and defend their reasoning for purchase. This article will provide background on the types of students we serve at Southeast and the collections held by Southeast Missouri State University's Special Collections & Archives. We will highlight how the existing collections were parlayed into the purchase of additional materials to develop an extensive teaching collection of medieval fragments and leaves. There were many successful impacts of this collaboration including the development of further experiential activities, library administrator buy-in, and additional monies being allocated to support continued growth of this teaching collection. It is the hope that some of these ideas can be used by other historians and archivists in a variety of settings to promote the importance of humanities coursework and continued collection development in this area. [End Page 113] Background Southeast Missouri State University is a comprehensive, public, regional university that attracts many first-generation college students. The campus has nearly twelve thousand students, between traditional and nontraditional students, undergraduate and graduate students, and online and in-person student learners. As a consequence, we engage with a diverse student body who come from a range of backgrounds and enter college with differing levels of preparedness. Students from the St. Louis metro region are often heard commenting that Cape Girardeau is the smallest place they have ever lived in, while for another large portion of our students coming from rural areas mainly to our south, Cape is the largest "city" they have ever lived in. Students in history classes mirror the wider student population. They tend to be motivated and flexible and respond positively to experiential learning. The Department of History and Anthropology has a reputation for incorporating hands-on learning techniques and the medieval history classes are no exception. Here we try to breach the gap between students' personal experiences and those of medieval people to encourage effective learning. Because of student background upon entering college, they can struggle with medieval history, which feels very alien and distant to them, both in terms of geography and time period. Therefore, we consistently work to improve our communication of the medieval period. One successful method has been to collaborate with Special Collections & Archives to use tangible heritage to assist with learning goals. Special Collections & Archives is within Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State's main library. It is a typical, small-to-medium academic archives that was only very recently established in 2001. Special Collections & Archives acquires, preserves, and makes accessible research materials that document the historical and cultural experience of the region of Southeast Missouri and the history of Southeast Missouri State University. While the holdings of the unit are developed in relation to instructional and research interests within the university, all holdings are available for use by visiting scholars and the public, as well as by Southeast faculty, staff, and students. Special Collections & Archives has over nine hundred processed collections in its holdings, which make up approximately 5,200 linear feet. The unit staff have also digitized and made available over ten thousand historical images and textual documents via an online platform with free public access. The unit also conducts ten to twenty "one-shot" primary sources and archival literacy instruction sessions each semester, depending on which classes are taught in...

Let's Build Theatre Communities . . . or Not: Virtual Teaching and Scholarship in an Exclusionary World

As collaborators who have been working together virtually since 2017, we have written plays and articles, conducted artist interviews, and are in the process of writing a book about teaching older adults theatre. When the pandemic came, everything else in our lives moved online, and we encountered new challenges with both our teaching and our scholarship. We were tasked with transitioning our theatre students to a virtual environment while conducting research for our book. We knew what was successful for us, as working online had helped our own practice, but would it be effective for students? And was it possible to write a scholarly book without access to academic libraries and archives? Our experiences over the past year reminded us that it shouldn't require a pandemic to rethink best practices in teaching and research. While the lessons we learned were because of a restructured academic environment, the issues we addressed existed previously and were often ignored. These are some of the things we will take with us postpandemic as educators and scholars.

Integrating Equity and Reconciliation Work into Archival Descriptive Practice at the University of Waterloo

Despite sustained calls for a critical review of harmful content within archival descriptive records, there remains much to be explored by way of implications for Canadian academic archives. This article addresses the absence of Canadian archival practitioners in broader discussions about the revision and remediation of descriptive records by exploring how staff in Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo Library are working to integrate equityand reconciliation-informed thinking into the department’s archival practice by revising their approach to language in archival descriptions. Beginning with an overview of the department and the landscape in which it operates, this article provides a brief review of guidance available in the Rules for Archival Description. It then provides the rationale behind the recent changes to descriptive practice before exploring a series of examples of how and where this work is newly underway. The article concludes with a consideration of current identified challenges and the related work ahead.