SCARC’s Public Services team is committed to, and actively engaged in, ensuring our collections and spaces are open and accessible to our researchers. We do this by:
- helping to ensure that collections are accessible to all researchers in terms of how they are described, how those descriptions are presented, and how the collections are accessed physically;
- regularly evaluating our physical research spaces to make them as physically accessible as possible;
- recognizing and supporting the diverse needs, abilities, and backgrounds of our research community, both proactively and as they arise;
- working to dismantle the expectation that all individuals conform to one ‘scholarly’ worldview by providing access to everyone, from anywhere, for any reason;
- encouraging researchers in the joy of discovery, and celebrating with them the fun, fulfilling, and profound moments that occur during the research process;
- addressing research anxiety by building trust and developing an ongoing research relationship; and
- committing to, and actively engaging in, SCARC’s on-going anti-racist actions work.
