(via Eamon Tewell, Columbia University)
Registration is now open for the ACRL Professional Values Committee’s free online webinar “When Collections are Considered Controversial: Stories from Academic Library Workers”. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 30, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM CDT. More information is below.
Join us for three fascinating presentations on how academic library workers have responded to controversies and challenges related to collection development and promotion activities, from controversial medical texts, to art books and visual materials depicting sexuality, to racial justice resource guides. The presenters will also discuss how core library values did or did not factor into their approaches and the actions they took.
The panel will include three 15-minute presentations, followed by 15 minutes for questions and answers. The discussion will feature the following speakers and topics.
- “The Pernkopf Atlas of Anatomy: A Medical Ethics Breach Hiding in Plain Sight”
- Laurel Scheinfeld, Health Sciences Librarian, Stony Brook University
- Jamie Saragossi, Head of Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University
- Kate Kasten-Mutkus, Head, Humanities and Social Sciences, Stony Brook University
- “The Desk as the Fig Leaf: Erotic Art Books in Library Collections”
- Madison Sullivan, Fine and Performing Arts Librarian, University of Washington
- “Taking PRIDE in Our Values: Anti-Racism Resources at UCSF Library”
- Sarah McClung, Head of Collection Development, University of California, San Francisco
- Josephine Tan, Education and Information Consultant, Clinical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
To register, please go here. You should then receive a Zoom link one week before the event. If you are unable to attend this session but wish to view a recording later, please register to receive an e-mail that includes a link to the video of the presentation.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Samantha Peter, at scook13@uwyo.edu.