February’s Community Hour Guest Speaker is Cristina Berron (she/her), Resident Archivist for the Benson Latin American Special Collections at UT Austin. Cristina will discuss her work developing a reparative metadata workflow aimed at identifying and remediating harmful, inaccurate, or outdated (H.O.I) terms in the UT Libraries' catalog (ALMA/Primo). She will also delve into her investigative process, explaining how she conducted an environmental scan of other institutions’ reparative workflows and adopted a few of their strategies and methods to help streamline the remediation process, both focused and bulk workflows, for the Subject Standards Group (SSG).

Speaker bio: Cristina Berron is the Resident Archivist for the Benson Latin American Special Collections at UT Austin, where she focuses on processing both physical and digital archival materials. She is committed to increasing the visibility and accessibility of archival collections related to underrepresented communities. She actively collaborates with colleagues across the libraries, investigating new tools and reparative practices to best describe archival resources. She holds a Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Monday, February 23rd, at 3:00 ET / 12:00 pm PT

EAC Community Hour: Reparative Metadata Workflows with Cristina Berron

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  • Monday Feb 23 2026, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online (ET)
    Zoom, New York
    United States