<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Please join us online Friday, October 1 at 3 PM for the 21st Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service, hosted by Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5cf66687-7fff-91b4-2b09-0db0f538d2dc" style=""><font size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Collecting Representative History : Building Community Archives</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Libraries and archives across the country are grappling with the problems created by collection practices of the past. Most public, bureaucratic records represent the histories of those in power who, until recently, have been a relatively homogeneous group. The history of the nation, however, is diverse. The Sherrer Lecture this year examines growing efforts in archives across Oregon to build inclusive records that better represent the disparate histories of this country. We will consider individual institutions' recent collecting efforts designed to witness a robust range of local histories. The types of collections they are creating are varied and their approaches and techniques are innovative. The problems they face are daunting. Our speakers will ask: How can we overcome disparities in historic record keeping practices? Who can create community archives? What approaches effectively produce relatively complete collections?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Panelists include </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hannah Leah Crummé, Head of Special Collections and College Archivist at</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Lewis & Clark College, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennifer Fang, Director of Education at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anne LaVant Prahl, Curator of Collections at</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Zoom link will follow closer to the event date.  Questions should be directed to Elaine Hirsch at <a href="mailto:elaineghirsch@lclark.edu">elaineghirsch@lclark.edu</a></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your continuing support of the Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service.  </span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elaine Hirsch</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associate Director</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Watzek Library</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lewis & Clark </span></p></font></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>