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Item "Queer Radio with Attitude": Digitizing Houston's LGBT Broadcast History(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Vinson, Emily; Scott, BethanyIn 2020, the University of Houston Libraries was awarded an NEH grant to digitize and make accessible 40 years of Houston’s LGBTQ radio and television history, totaling over 3,500 hours. The project brings together several broadcast collections through a post-custodial collaboration with the Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of GLBT History. Decades before issues like trans visibility or intersectionality entered the mainstream, these radio and TV programs provided a platform for marginalized voices. In the hands of researchers, this data set reveals how one city's LGBTQ community grew and organized with the help of media. In this presentation, we will describe the contents of the collections, highlighting the unique opportunities and challenges presented by a large-scale, post-custodial AV archive from an underrepresented community (during a pandemic). In particular we will discuss our approach to redacting music under copyright, generating and providing access to captions or transcripts for each recording, and describing thousands of unique recordings for publication on our digital library.Item Session 3B | Bias in Online Library Collections Searches(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-25) Hetrick, EmmaThe main issue of this one hour workshop will be biases in library digital collection catalog searches. I will begin by analyzing the Harry Ransom Center’s digital collections within the context of critical archival studies, critical Internet studies, critical race studies, and search engine studies. My aim is to identify how the "search" function of these collections operates, and determine how well it provides relevant results for searches about identity. This study is modeled on Safiya Noble’s Google searches in her book Algorithms of Oppression. I conclude that the “search feature” is limited in yielding relevant results, and furthermore, that the digital images in the database are not labeled in a manner to yield more desirable results. This research contributes to several of the efforts described in the HRC's Diversity Action Plan, and I hope will provide actionable recommendations to increase the accessibility, inclusivity, and representation of the HRC's collections and the way they are described online. To that end, I want to open the conversation to workshop participants and their experiences with searching library catalogs in an effort to brainstorm changes that can be made to these catalogs. No prior knowledge or experience is required, but attendees will be encouraged to try some searches of their own either before or during the workshop.