<div dir="ltr"><div>I think I see how this problem happened.  Librarians try to be impartial about the data they convey...if someone wants material on a touchy subject, we often will find it and say "here is what you wanted" without putting it in context, or offering an opinion on the value of the material. (This is contextual, of course.)  Cataloging in particular follows this...Holocaust Denial books have the same subject heading as books about the Holocaust.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the librarian who put up the blackface display was thinking in those terms...here is something in our collection that goes to the current controversy, without commenting on it.</div><div><br></div><div>I showed some <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/45.5131/-122.6579&opacity=0.8">Home Owners Loan Corporation</a> neighborhood maps from 1937 to a one-shot class yesterday- they include comments including "subversive races" that lived there.  (In 1937 Portland, that was mostly Russians and Finns).  A couple of the students got upset at seeing this material, but the teacher and I were able to get them to focus on the historical value of having that original source material.  That context settled them down, "Oh yeah, that's right" and we went on....but without our intervention things could have gone off the rails.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Tony Greiner, Librarian/ Portland Community College, Oregon<br>971-722-5333. <a href="mailto:anthony.greiner@pcc.edu" target="_blank">anthony.greiner@pcc.edu</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>PCCs largest underserved group is men. 54% of our student body is female, 43% male.  A headcount difference of 4,400.  Source: Higher Education Coordinating Commission- Datamart<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:00 PM Steve Silver <<a href="mailto:ssilver@nwcu.edu">ssilver@nwcu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Doane University president orders removal of library display and places library director on leave, following display of photos from the archives which included two photos from the 1920s of students in blackface:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,51,106)">Steve Silver</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,51,106)"><br>
Library Director<br>
541-684-7237<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:ssilver@nwcu.edu" target="_blank">ssilver@nwcu.edu</a></span></u><u><span style="color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
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Wisdom  <b>∙ </b> Faith  <b>∙</b>  Service<br>
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