In response to the increasingly urgent Black Lives Matter movement, the Digital Commonwealth published a statement in support of the movement in Spring 2020. Included in that statement were action items for how DC could support the movement from its position in the digital cultural heritage world. Out of those action items came a survey sent to DC member institutions about how those institutions were working to enhance DEAI as well as how social justice issues and/or offensive material are handled in their collections. The survey also solicited interviews with institutions who wanted to discuss these topics in further detail. This presentation will talk about the results of the survey and interviews.

Justin Snow is the President of the Board of Digital Commonwealth. He is a member of the Conference Committee and chaired the committee for two years. He works as the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Salem State University where he maintains the institutional repository and the library’s website. He also works with the SSU community on digital scholarship and other related projects. He has published articles in College & Undergraduate Libraries and Practical Technology for Archives and he has presented at conferences such as the Digital Commonwealth Conference and the New England Archivists conference.