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DAIS to focus on Shared Stewardship in 2025

This year, the DAIS series will focus on the scholarship and/or practice of shared responsibility for and collaboration around cultural collections. The focus will explore questions around the nature of partnership and collections stewardship, co-developing new models to guide shared stewardship efforts, and work in varied spaces including community archives, Indigenous knowledge, data reuse, network sovereignty, or other areas. We understand shared stewardship as a network of practices and a growing area of research amongst archives, libraries, and museums, which address questions around how institutions can interact with collection source communities and stakeholders in mutually beneficial, collaborative, and increasingly interactive modes. Looking to understand the many ways shared stewardship manifests in both institutions and communities, we ask speakers to address questions related to partnerships, models, and concepts: 

• Who shares the responsibilities of shared stewardship? What are the responsibilities? How are those responsibilities shared?

• What communities should be involved? What practitioners beyond archivists?

• How are resources shared?

• What forms of relationships are integral? What are “authentic partnerships” in shared stewardship? Are they possible? Are they something we should be striving to achieve? 

• How can universities (or other established cultural organizations) partner with more agile, or newer community memory organizations? What models have worked? Can we develop more effective models for such interactions?

• What theories or concepts can inform how we understand shared stewardship? Is shared stewardship decolonial?

Planned talks include:

• Thuy Vo Dang (UCLA)

• Trevor Owens (American Institute of Physics)

• Estevan Rael-Galvez (Native Bound Unbound / SAR)

• For an updated list, see the DAIS page

Emily Drabinski Featured on UMSI Podcast!

Last year, DAIS co-sponsored a talk by Emily Drabinski, then the President of the American Library Association. Her talk at the Rackham Amphitheatre was a marquee event for the School of Information and attracted librarians, archivists, and all sorts of interested parties from around campus and the state! Drabinski was recently featured on an episode of UMSI's new podcast , which you can check out at https://www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/podcasts/information-changes-everything-podcast/402-critical-librarianship-action-ala. 

Fall 2023 Term is Underway!

We're all excited that the new fall term has started! The ARC Group has set up a series of meetings for the fall and we are working on a speaker series. We are looking forward to sharing information about these speakers as the term progresses.