A Bi-Weekly Update
5/13/11
Saying Goodbye
Joyce Hommel became the Director of Trexler Library some five years ago. Time has indeed flown! Many positive changes have taken place in the library under Joyce’s direction.
Recently Joyce announced that she would be leaving Muhlenberg College in late June of this year to join her husband who has found a new job in Michigan. She will be sorely missed. We wish her all the best in this new chapter of her life.
A search for a new library director is underway under the direction of the Dean of the College for Academic Life. Penny Lochner, Head of Collection Resource Management, will service as Interim Director of Trexler Library beginning July 1.
Infomaniac Tip
Next Week in History: Brown v. Board of Education Decided
“On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the “separate but equal” precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s.” Read more at http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/
The following selected resources showcase a variety of primary sources related to Brown v. Board and the U.S. civil rights movement.
Civil Rights Digital Library (GALILEO University System of Georgia)
http://crdl.usg.edu/
Includes: “1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources – such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities–to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process.”Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi)
http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm4/crmda.php
“Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Hattiesburg, home of The University of Southern Mississippi, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. The civil rights materials collected at the University document a local history with truly national significance. The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, and other documents. Oral history transcripts are also available, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections.”Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (University of Maryland School of Law)
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.html
“The [Thurgood Marshall Law] Library has worked […] to create a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library’s collection and available on the USCCR Web site.”Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 (University of Virginia)
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/
“Aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia–WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. In this initial installment we have digitized over 230 films. This rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.”Voices of Civil Rights (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/
“The exhibition Voices of Civil Rights documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This exhibition draws from the thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the ‘Voices of Civil Rights’ project.”
