University Libraries visiting scholar Tanya Zanish-Belcher will present a talk, “Academic Freedom: The Key Role of Archival Records,” at 11 a.m. April 18 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Zanish-Belcher is the director of special collections and archives at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Prior to her role at Wake Forest, she was the head of special collections and archives at Iowa State University’s library and special collections archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Zanish-Belcher’s presentation will address how community-based archives and digitization of materials from the past are providing a new voice to marginalized groups. Her lecture will also discuss the growing lack of access to the public record, whether by cost, censorship, a decrease in public funding or a narrowing view of American citizenship.

For more information about the talk, contact Joan Barnes at jbarnes3@unl.edu or 402-472-6987.