PDA Event: Collaborating with Stakeholders to Support Underserved Communities with Reparative Collections: Benefits, Challenges, and Emerging Best Practices

Colleagues at Southern Illinois University Carbondale discuss how opportunities to develop reparative archival collections emerged and have been pursued in collaboration with underserved Black and LGBTQ+ communities in the southern Illinois region. The panel reflects on expected and unexpected benefits and challenges of coordinating initiatives and building collections with internal and external partners and stakeholders and offers thoughts on best practices based on their experiences.

Presenters:

Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm (she/her), Associate Dean, Library Affairs

Dr. Pamela Smoot (she/her), Professor of History

Juniper Oxford (she/her), Director of the Paulette Curkin Pride Resource Center

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Hosted by CARLI