Collaborating with Stakeholders to Support Underserved Communities with Reparative Collections: Benefits, Challenges, and Emerging Best Practices

Dr. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Juniper Oxford, and Dr. Pamela Smoot at Southern Illinois University Carbondale discuss how opportunities to develop reparative archival collections emerged and have been pursued in collaboration with underserved Black and LGBTQ+ communities in the southern Illinois region. The panel will reflect on expected and unexpected benefits and challenges of coordinating initiatives and building collections with internal and external partners and stakeholders and will offer thoughts on best practices based on their experiences.