Location: Kent A-C Links to recorded presentations were removed from Sched on June 15. All registered attendees have received an email with direct links for access. Recordings will remain available only for registered attendees until they are released to the public on NASIG's YouTube channel, after an embargo.The Problem: There is growing recognition of the role that collections decisions and priorities in libraries have historically played in marginalizing the histories and experiences of people of color in their collections. More recently, digital scholars have called attention to the reproduction of this problem in the digital space. Meanwhile, within libraries, diversity and cultural competence continue to be areas of concern, as is the lack of curricular training in scholarly communication skills.
Libraries have responded by creating digital collections focusing on historically excluded groups to fill gaps in library and archive collections. Many of these collections are explicitly designed to be public-facing, leveraging open access scholarship and publicly accessible sources and collections. This presentation will focus on an open-access digital exhibit being built at IU (Indiana University) Bloomington libraries, designed to contribute to the digital cultural record that seeks to recover and center previously marginalized histories. However, this project goes a step further by seeking to actively engage students in the project with an explicit focus on developing a deeper understanding of scholarly communication, open access, and digital collections. This project illustrates that digital collections that focus on the stories of historically marginalized groups can be an important training site for addressing multiple issues of concern to the profession.
In March 2022, the Indiana University Scholarly Communication Department in Herman B Wells Library, in partnership with the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library and the Lilly Library, will launch the timeline and toolkit – Land, Wealth, Liberation: The Making & Unmaking of Black Wealth in the United States. The project will center the subject of Black wealth in the United States, spanning the period 1820-2020. The toolkit will offer historical resources and scholarly work on Black wealth accumulation and Black landownership that will hopefully engender studies and analysis in the academy on these communities and expand the popular discussions of economic progress in African American communities beyond the current narratives in US society.
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