<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">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 color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-m_1067613186478599013gmail-docs-internal-guid-5cf66687-7fff-91b4-2b09-0db0f538d2dc"><font color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://college.lclark.edu/calendars/events/#!view/event/event_id/330676">Collecting Representative History : Building Community Archives</a></span></p><div style=""><span>(access to Zoom link) </span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;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><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:acumin-pro,sans-serif">Panelists include:</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:acumin-pro,sans-serif">Hannah Leah Crummé, Head of Special Collections and College Archivist at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:acumin-pro,sans-serif">Jennifer Fang, Director of Education at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, Portland, Oregon</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:acumin-pro,sans-serif">Anne LaVant Prahl, Curator of Collections at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, Oregon</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:acumin-pro,sans-serif">Mariah Berlanga-Shevchuk, Cultural Resources Manager at the Five Oaks Museum, Portland, Oregon</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;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;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;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></font></span></div><font color="#000000">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Elaine Hirsch (she/her)</font><div><font color="#000000">Associate Director<br></font><div><a href="http://library.lclark.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Aubrey R. Watzek Library</font></a></div><div><a href="https://www.lclark.edu/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Lewis & Clark College</font></a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>