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For inquiries about donating collections, using the digital collections, policies, or copyright questions about the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Digital Collections, please contact us at archives@auctr.edu by following this link.
Digital Services Department
For inquiries regarding the RADAR website, or submitting a thesis or dissertation, please contact the Digital Services Department at DSD@auctr.edu by following this link.
Permissions to Publish and Image Reproduction
Researchers may be granted permission to publish on a case-by case basis. For questions regarding permissions to publish or image reproduction related to the AUC Woodruff Library collections contact us at archives@auctr.edu.
For permission to publish regarding collections from Spelman College please contact the Spelman College Archives.
Take Down Notice and Procedure
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (AUC Woodruff Library) is committed to providing access to a broad range of scholarly works and digitized archival collections for educational purposes that support research, teaching and learning. The Library makes every effort to ensure it has the appropriate rights and permissions to ingest and provide access to content available on this repository, and provides attribution to rights holders when possible. However, due to the nature of archival collections, identifying rights information can sometimes be ambiguous and difficult to determine.
If you have rights related questions or concerns about items in our repository or wish to contest the posting of a specific work that is not covered by fair use, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu. In your notice please include the following information:
- Name/title of the item or other details that might describe the item.
- URL where you found the item.
- An explanation of the concern and description of the potential infringement.
- Your contact information (including email address and phone number).
In accordance with the AUC Woodruff Libraries take down procedures, when the library is notified of a potential breach of copyright or notice of a concern, the complete document or file will be removed from public view as quickly as possible while a review is undertaken.
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Statement on Potentially Harmful Language and Content in our Digital Collections and Resources
The AUC Woodruff Library’s digital archival and scholarly holdings may contain resources that its community could find offensive and/or harmful and difficult to view. Historical records can, and often do, contain content from different time periods and cultures that illustrate a harmful, stereotyped, and/or offensive outlook towards people of color, people that identify as LBGTQ+, people with disabilities, and people from other equity-seeking communities.
The Library’s digital collections are collected and preserved as part of the American historic record and we believe in facilitating access as equitably and objectively as possible. Providing online access to these historical materials does not endorse any attitudes, prejudices, or behaviors depicted therein. The AUC Woodruff Library is committed to upholding the principle of equal and free access to unaltered historical information.
If you encounter harmful or offensive language or content in our digital collections and have questions about this statement or our work, we welcome your feedback at inquiries@auctr.edu.
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References
- Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, https://rose.library.emory.edu/about/harmful-language.html
- Digital Public Library of America, Black Women’s Suffrage Project, https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/harmful-language-statement
- Georgia Public Library Service, https://georgialibraries.org/about-gpls/
- California State University San Marcos, https://biblio.csusm.edu/content/potentially-harmful-language-and-content
- The Cataloging Lab, List of Statements on Bias in Library and Archives Description, http://cataloginglab.org/list-of-statements-on-bias-in-library-and-archi...
- North Carolina State University Libraries, Ethics in Archives: Decisions in Digital Archiving, https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/special-collections/ethics-in-archives%3A-...