Allison Galloup, University of North Georgia

In 2019 a Virginia university’s institutional repository manager was faced with a tough situation: the president of the university asked them to remove digital copies of all of the school’s yearbooks that contain racist imagery. Watching the IR manager’s struggle on Twitter and seeing the response from the wider community, UNG Special Collections & Archives faculty recognized that similar items could be found in their yearbooks and wanted to get ahead of any potential issues. The result is a potentially harmful content statement that is displayed on most pages in the digital collections. This session will cover drafting the harmful content statement as well as collaboration with other departments within the university for support.