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Description: Digital tools have been an essential part of Lauinger Library’s response to Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (SMR) Initiative. As part of its comprehensive efforts to improve access to its collections and engage faculty and students, Lauinger archivists and librarians have used a variety of digital tools that have enhanced archival description, engaged faculty, and empowered students to create knowledge that will inform the ongoing campus conversation regarding the legacy of Jesuit involvement in slavery, particularly the 1838 sale of 272 people which enabled Georgetown College to pay its debts. Recently the librarians at Lauinger have been using these tools to enhance archival descriptions to help researchers make connections between collections within the Library, particularly the Georgetown University Archives, Archives of the Maryland Province, and Woodstock Theological College Archives.