Johnson, Eboni

Keller, Tim

Margaris, Amy

Wagenfeld, Eric

Zhu, Runxiao

English

Digital Commons at Oberlin (Oberlin College)

Growing Special Collections and Archives for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility            Amy Margaris is Associate Professor and Chair of the Oberlin College Anthropology Department. Her research and teaching are in the areas of prehistory, material culture, and museum studies with a focus on Native Alaska. She also has an interest in the history of ethnological collecting. Oberlin College houses a unique 19th century ethnological collection that contains roughly 1,600 objects acquired by missionaries and naturalists from a variety of regions.    Tim Keller, Head of Discovery and Metadata Services, works in the Mary Church Terrell Main Library. He facilitates the daily operations of discovery and metadata in the library. His department works to make information resources, such as books, DVDs, digital objects, and other materials, findable both inside the libraries on campus and more broadly, everywhere.    Runxiao Zhu is the East Asian Studies Librarian at Mary Church Terrell Main Library in Oberlin College. At Oberlin, she works on the selection, acquisition, and bibliographic control of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language collections, and actively involves with digital initiatives team, Special collections and visual resources as well as archival collections. She is also a member of Core Reference & Instruction team.    Eric Wagenfeld is Director of Disability Resources at Oberlin College. He holds degrees and licensure in counseling. He has been working in leadership positions in disability resources for almost 25 years. His focus is on providing equal access to all programs, courses, and events.   Eboni Johnson is the Outreach and Programming Librarian And member of the Core Reference and Instruction Team at Oberlin College the Mary Church Terrell Main Library. She is the editor of “Librarian as Mentor: Grow, Discover, Inspire” (Mission Bell Media, 2017) which explores the many ways mentoring can be an effective tool in recruiting, retaining, supporting, and developing a diverse workforce in any library.  

Community Plenary: Growing Special Collections and Archives for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility / Moderator: Eboni Johnson

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Community Plenary: Growing Special Collections and Archives for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility / Moderator: Eboni Johnson

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