SCARC’s 2024-2025 exhibit “Anti-Racist Description Activities in OSU’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center” is now on view! The exhibit showcases the context, behind-the-scenes processes, and various projects reflecting SCARC’s anti-racist description activities over the past several years.

When: The 2024-2025 academic year (Fall 2024 – Summer 2025)

Where: The Valley Library 5th Floor SCARC Exhibit Cases (open during SCARC’s open hours, Monday – Friday 10am-4pm)

The PDFs of the exhibit are available online via Oregon Digital

Community Response to the Exhibit!

OSU Today Story: “OSU library exhibit documents archivists’ anti-racist description work” by Molly Rosbach on Oct. 15, 2024

OSU’s Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) Featured Post on Instagram, November 15, 2024

Exhibit Tour for Members of OLA’s EDIA Committee, November 18, 2024

The mission of the committee is to “encourage an inclusive environment that promotes freedom of speech in conjunction with strong policies that protect patrons and library staff of all gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, race, sexual orientation, disability, income level, age and all other personal, social, cultural and economic perspectives.” The host the podcast Overdue: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries featuring EDIA work in libraries from across Oregon.