{"id":25924,"date":"2025-09-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/?p=25924"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:29:20","slug":"reforma-conference-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2025\/09\/20\/reforma-conference-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The OMA at the National REFORMA Conference 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SCARC’s anti-racist descriptive activities<\/a> were represented by Oregon Multicultural Archives<\/a> curator Natalia Fern\u00e1ndez at the National REFORMA Conference with a poster presentation titled “Moving from Words to Actions: Anti-Racist Description Projects of Archival Materials Pertaining to Oregon\u2019s Latinx Community History.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National REFORMA Conference is the premier training and networking event for those dedicated to library services for Latinos and Spanish-speaking communities. It is hosted by REFORMA<\/a>, established in 1971 as an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), as a national association to promote library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. The conference theme for this year was “Moving Forward Together: Empowering the Latino Community” and the conference took place September 18-21, 2025, in Long Beach, CA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poster Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archivists are actively engaging in anti-racist work, especially regarding how we describe the materials and collections we steward. This poster shares the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center\u2019s collaborative process for developing and completing anti-racist description projects. As examples, two projects pertaining to Oregon\u2019s Latinx community history are featured: highlighting materials pertaining to Indigenous communities from Mexico present in the Erlinda Gonzales-Berry Papers and remediating the description for our online Braceros in Oregon Photographs collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fern\u00e1ndez spoke to 12 attendees during the 1 hour poster session to share SCARC’s work. Many attendees were not members of the special collections and archives community and were delighted and inspired that repositories across the county are engaging in anti-racist descriptive activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Access to the Poster via ScholarsArchive@OSU: Moving from words to actions : anti-racist description projects of archival materials pertaining to Oregon\u2019s Latinx community history<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster as presented at the National REFORMA Conference poster session on September 20, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Highlights from the National REFORMA Conference 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keynote Speaker: Maria Hinojosa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1992, Hinojosa launched Latino USA<\/em><\/a>, “the longest-running public radio Latino news and cultural program,” and in 2010, she founded Futuro Media Group<\/a> which “creates multimedia content for and about the new American mainstream in the service of empowering people to navigate the complexities of an increasingly diverse and connected world.” (from Latino USA and Future Media Group about pages)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tour! Chicano History & REFORMA Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description: Explore the REFORMA Archives and uncover Chicano history in Los Angeles. Begin at the REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles, to learn about the organization’s role in preserving and advocating for Latino library services. Then, visit the Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library, a vital hub for research on Chicano heritage and activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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California State University, Los Angeles, Special Collections and Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A variety of REFORMA newsletters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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REFORMA newsletters from 2001-2002 featuring information about the need for mentorship within the profession and advocating for language rights nation-wide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reports from the 1980s on topics still relevant to this day: the lack of representation of people of color in the library profession <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The East Los Angeles Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Chicano Resource Center, external view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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The Chicano Resource Center, internal view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Resources Featured During Conference Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliopol\u00edtica: A Digital History of the Chicano Studies Library<\/a>\u00a0~ at the intersection of Chicana\/o\/x Studies, Digital Humanities, and Library History,\u00a0this online exhibit chronicles the history of one of the first Chicana\/o\/x collections,\u00a0the Chicano Studies Library (CSL)<\/a>\u00a0at the University of California, Berkeley. Viewers are invited to explore\u00a0the digital exhibit, listen to recorded\u00a0oral histories, browse digitized\u00a0archival items, or explore on their own path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinco Books<\/a> ~ making available the classic and also the newest from the Spanish speaking world \/ acceso a las obras cl\u00e1sicas de la literatura del mundo hispano hablante.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves<\/a> ~ a session partially inspired by this article which defines vocational awe as “the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique.” The author states: “I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCARC’s anti-racist descriptive activities were represented by Oregon Multicultural Archives curator Natalia Fern\u00e1ndez at the National REFORMA Conference with a poster presentation titled “Moving from Words to Actions: Anti-Racist Description Projects of Archival Materials Pertaining to Oregon\u2019s Latinx Community History.” About the Conference The National REFORMA Conference is the premier training and networking event for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124479],"tags":[1345955,1345957],"class_list":["post-25924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oregon-multicultural-archives","tag-oma","tag-reparative-description"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924\/revisions\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}