Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection – UGA Libraries News & Events http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog news and events from the UGA Libraries Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:54:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.1 Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10804 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10804#respond Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:54:25 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10804  

The University of Georgia Libraries and the UGA Center for Teaching and Learnin​g (CTL) announce a new faculty development opportunity for individuals who teach full-time at The University of Georgia. The Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows Program provides instructional support and a $2000 financial stipend to faculty who wish to develop new courses or redesign existing courses to make significant use of the collections and resources of the University of Georgia’s three special collections libraries: the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection.

Recent studies have demonstrated that effective archives-based learning enhances student engagement, performance, and, in some cases, student retention across all higher education disciplines (www.teacharchives.org).  Students who engage with primary sources in an archives setting build observation and summarization skills, learn to work collaboratively to analyze information and solve problems, and discover the sensory and emotional impact of handling historical materials. These skills and experiences help students understand and value the interconnected processes of research and analysis that draw upon many resources, approaches, and viewpoints to generate rigorous scholarship.

To achieve these goals, archives-based learning works best when instructors and archivists collaborate to craft archives-centered assignments and projects that align with course goals, provide clear learning objectives, offer appropriate guidance and direction, balance logistical constraints, and illuminate the intrinsic value of historical materials for research and for life. The Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows program provides a wonderful, engaging, and exciting archives-centered faculty development experience in a convivial and collaborative environment that values experimentation, reflection, and, yes, even fun!

The 2017 activities for the Special Collections Libraries (SCL) Faculty Fellows begin in December 2016. Formal faculty development sessions occur throughout Spring 2017. Course implementations may occur anytime during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Goals

  • To provide teaching faculty with support to implement innovative archives–centered pedagogical approaches in their courses;
  • To provide faculty with opportunities for sharing ideas with other dedicated, highly-motivated, and innovative teachers from various disciplines;
  • To provide faculty with opportunities for building partnerships and collaborations with Special Collections archivists and librarians;
  • To allow faculty to access personalized consulting and instructional assistance from the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning;
  • To provide funding for an instructional project rooted in the unique collections and resources of the Special Collections Libraries;
  • To further integrate what research tells us about the value of archives-centered pedagogy into undergraduate and graduate learning;
  • To cultivate an innovative instructional environment that honors and recognizes dedicated teaching scholars and promotes a learning community spirit on a large campus.

Eligibility

Applicants must be full-time employees of the University of Georgia and will teach their archives-centered course during the 2017-2018 academic year. The SCL Fellows program is open to all University teaching faculty, tenure-track and non-tenure track.

Each fall, a committee composed of the SCL program coordinators and a representative from the CTL will select up to twelve faculty members to begin participation in a one-year program beginning in January. Demonstrated passion for and commitment to excellence in teaching, and an interest in experimentation and innovation in approaches and techniques are key factors for selection. The selection committee will review applications and may elect to interview applicants. The committee will notify applicants by November 14, 2016.

Application Process

Applications should be submitted here: https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2lbUICGfegBRiHr

Financial Support

Each SCL Faculty Fellow receives a stipend in the amount of $2000 to support development and implementation of their archives-centered course.

Activities

The following activities comprise the 2017 program:

Kickoff events: ​Welcome dinner and Collections tour on Monday, December 5, 2016 (4pm-7pm) and a half-­day, fellows Morning Retreat on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 (9am-2pm). These events will introduce the core instructional facets of archives-centered learning.

Monthly Workshops: The fellows will meet as a cohort twice a month throughout the spring semester in a large group workshop setting.

Meetings will be conducted as a combination of round table discussions and workshop activities and may include outside speakers. Core topicswill include:​

  • theoretical and practical foundations of archivy (understanding archives) and their implications for knowledge creation and transmission,
  • the value of expanded sensory engagement (see, hear, touch…) for learning, archival collections as novel data (new uses for archival collections), opportunities for experiential learning in special collections,
  • the place of historical knowledge in the sciences and professional fields,
  • and assessing learning outcomes from special collections-centered learning contexts.

TeachArchives.org will serve as a core text for this program. In 2017, workshop meetings will take place on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: January 11, January 18, February 8, February 22, March 15, March 29, April 12, and April 26.

Maymester Institute: The SCL will hold an institute on May 9-12, 2017 to focus on course design, planning, and development in advance of the 2017-2018 academic year.

For More Information

For additional information, contact Jill Severn at jsevern@uga.edu or Dr. Chase Hagood attchagood@uga.edu.

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Peabody Symposium: “Television History, the Peabody Archives, and Cultural Memory” http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10802 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10802#respond Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:44:40 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10802  

The Peabody Archives is a unique collection of media history, housing over 90,000 programs submitted to the Peabody Awards since its inception in 1941. What makes the collection exceptional is the breadth of stories through which their contributors have made a claim for historical significance. Items from local broadcasters, in particular, carry special value due to their rareness (Peabody houses the only remaining copies), as well as the fact that local broadcasters were much more active in telling local stories through original programming several decades ago. As such, the Archives is a distinctive repository of cultural memory that challenges our understanding of who and what we are as a nation and what we think we know about television and its role in recent American history.

The Symposium is the second of a two-part conference, and the culmination of a collaborative research initiative based on the Archives and its holdings. It will be held Oct. 28-30 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. Distinguished television studies scholars from across the country will present new research to expand current understandings of American cultural history as seen on TV, and offer a wide range of critical perspectives on what Peabody Awards submissions have to teach us. Some of the topics include: what makes “quality television”; the celebration of our nation’s bicentennial; representations of homosexuality; early medical television journalism; conceptions of blackness; fake news; and the War on Drugs. The scholars’ findings will be the start of a new series on Television History produced by the University of Georgia Press.

All UGA faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Molly.Williams1@uga.edu by September 30.

This event is generously supported by the UGA Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Georgia Libraries, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, and University of Georgia Press.

Symposium Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

8:30am – 9:30am Coffee & Opening Discussion

9:30am – 12:00pm The Peabody Archive and the Presentation and Production of

TV History

* The Archive and The Index: Situational Historiography in the Early Years of Television

Dr. Mark Williams, Dartmouth College

* Supporting Materials That Matter: Paratextual Value in the Peabody Archives

Dr. Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin

* The Peabody Archive and the Production of American Media History

Dr. Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist University

* Discourses of Excellence: What Peabody Awards Submissions Teach Us About “Quality

Television”

Dr. Jason Mittell, Middlebury College

12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm – 4:00pm Media Citizens: City, Region, Nation, World

* Strikes, Riots, and Muggers: How Mayor Lindsay Weathered New York City’s Image

Crisis

Dr. Heather Hendershot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

* Bicentennial Programming in the Peabody Archive

Dr. Christine Becker, University of Notre Dame

* INTERTEL: From International Acclaim to Oblivion, and Back

Dr. Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin

4:00pm – 5:00pm Reception

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29

8:30am – 9:30am Coffee & Opening Discussion

9:30am – 12:00pm Reassessing Boundaries of Subjectivity and Visibility

* Peabody Camp: Fifties Contenders and Queer Gender

Dr. Quinn Miller, University of Oregon

* Fugitive Subjectivities

Dr. Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz

* Local News in the 1970s and the Emergence of Gay Visibility

Dr. Susan J. Douglas, University of Michigan

* Reframing Black Power Television: Ossie Davis and the Politics of Representation on

Public Television

Dr. Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine

12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm – 4:00pm Revisiting Strategies of Public Service

* “Medical School of the World:” Education and Public Service through Post-War Medical

Television

Dr. Susan Murray, New York University

* Serious Fake News on Local Television in the 1970s and 1980s

Dr. Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

* Documenting Illegal Drugs in the 1980s

Dr. Deborah L. Jaramillo, Boston University

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30

8:30am – 9:00am Coffee

9:00am – 11:00am Closing Discussion

* Reponses by Dr. Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University

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“Whisperin’ Bill” Anderson to perform Sept. 7 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10797 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10797#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:21:04 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10797 Country music star “Whisperin’ Bill” Anderson will return to Athens Sept. 7 to perform specially selected songs and read from his well-received autobiography, now out from the University of Georgia Press.

Known as “Whisperin’ Bill” to generations of fans for his soft vocalizations and spoken lyrics, Anderson is the only songwriter in country music history to have a song on the charts in each of the past seven consecutive decades. A UGA graduate and member of the Grand Ol’ Opry, Anderson will be at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries for the event, which begins at 4 p.m.  It is open free to the public and a reception will follow, giving visitors an opportunity to see an exhibit drawn from Anderson’s collection of memorabilia. Reservations are requested by Aug. 31 to Leandra Nessel at libdevelopment@uga.edu or (706) 542-3879.

Whisperin’ Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music. Mega country music hits like “City Lights,” (Ray Price), “Tips Of My Fingers,” (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold, Steve Wariner), “Once A Day,” (Connie Smith), “Saginaw, Michigan,” (Lefty Frizzell), and many more flowed from his pen, making him one of the most decorated songwriters in music history. But the iconic singer, songwriter, performer, and TV host came to a point in his career where he questioned if what he had to say mattered anymore  – little did he know, his most rewarding climb lie ahead. A follow-up to his 1989 autobiography, this honest and revealing book tells the story of a man with an unprecedented gift, holding on to it in order to share it. A product of a long-gone Nashville, Anderson worked to reinvent himself, and this biography documents Anderson’s 50-plus-year career—a career he once thought unattainable.

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Panel to remember the 1996 Olympics http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10587 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10587#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:42:30 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10587 300 S. Hull Street was a parking lot when tens of thousands of Olympic athletes and fans descended on Athens for the Centennial Olympic Games. UGA faculty, students, and staff joined other Athenians in welcoming visitors to the Classic City. Today, UGA’s Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries occupy that former parking lot, and the records and artifacts collected by many who worked, volunteered, and attended the Olympics are part of the collections of the Hargrett, Russell, and Brown Archives.

On Tuesday, June 21, 2016, the Special Collections Libraries will continue their commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Centennial Olympics with “Athens’ Olympics Remembered,” a panel discussion featuring three couples, all of whom were deeply connected to the Games.  James and Carol Reap, Jack and Jacquie Houston, and Marc and Becky Galvin will share their stories, and audience members will be asked to join in and contribute.

Mary Miller, Peabody Awards Collection archivist, organized the event. “I still have vivid memories of attending the Women’s soccer finals, and it’s hard for me to believe it’s been 20 years since the 1996 Olympics. The Olympics had a strong and lasting impact on Athens, and I’m looking forward to hearing more about the experiences of those who were closely connected to the process.”

James K. Reap served the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as the uniform manager for Volunteer Services at the Uniform Distribution Center in Atlanta. Jacquie Houston was by Nwankwo Kanu’s side moments after he captained the Nigerian men’s soccer team to win the Gold. A highlight for panelist Marc Galvin, who served as a sector coordinator for UGA during the Olympics, was assisting with the raising of the United States flag at the Gold Medal ceremony for United States Women’s Soccer Team. “I have always been patriotic but that was a peak moment and I was honored to have that opportunity,” Galvin recalls.

Uniforms, photographs, souvenirs, a torch, newspaper headlines, and a gold medal are among the artifacts included in the ongoing Special Collections Olympics exhibit. A tour of the exhibit and a reception will follow the discussion.

Free and open to the public.

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
Room 271

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UGA Special Collections Libraries to Host Spring Exhibits Reception http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10453 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10453#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:39:55 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10453 abbot_newletterJoin the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries at the University of Georgia for a spring exhibits reception next Thursday, April 14 at 5:30 p.m. The event will include live music from local band Hog-Eyed Man; a custom print station operated by Double Dutch Press; light refreshments and gallery tours. The reception is free and open to the public.

Exhibitions highlighted include: “The Greatest Bulldog of Them All: Dan McGill,” “Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the Modern South,” “Selections from the Disability History Archive,” “John Abbot, Early Georgia’s Naturalist Artist,” “Celebrating 75 years of excellence: The George Foster Peabody Awards,” and “Olympic Legacy.”

RSVP to lnessel@uga.edu or call 706.542.3879. For more information about the Special Collections Libraries call 706.542.7123 or visit www.libs.uga.edu/scl

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Book Talk: “How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10410 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10410#respond Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:49:01 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10410 Kimberly Marlowe Harnett, author of Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights, will talk about the book next week at the Russell Special Collections Libraries.

Harnett’s presentation will begin Wednesday, March 16,  at 1 p.m. in the auditorium of the  Russell Building.  It is open free to the public and a reception will follow.

Harry Golden (1903-1981) was a Jew, a writer, a humorist, and a fearless advocate for civil rights. He exposed racism and anti-Semitism in all guises, and he did so with wit and originality. After his immigrant childhood on the Lower East Side and a stint on Wall Street in the 1920s (closely followed by prison time in Atlanta for fraud), Golden landed in Charlotte, N.C., in the 1940s. There he launched his quirky newspaper, the Carolina Israelite, which led to his first book, Only in America, a record-breaking bestseller in 1958. More than 20 popular books followed, along with a syndicated column, and an enormous national audience from the 1950s to the ’70s.

“Golden was a pop-culture star, unabashed self-promoter, very funny, and essentially a blogger before the Internet existed — and was recognized by many of the civil rights movement’s leaders as an effective ally,” Hartnett said.

In the 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. cited Golden as one of a small number of whites who wrote in “eloquent, prophetic, and understanding terms” about the civil rights struggle.

Hartnett’s presentation will use portions of the 1966 television documentary, “The World of Harry Golden,” made for National Educational Television by WGTV’s film and television production unit at the Georgia Center. The film is preserved by the UGA Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives, a sponsor of this presentation, and is available to view ahead of the book talk in streaming form on their website:  http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/educational/gacenter.html

“I have been a fan of Harry Golden’s writings since I was a teenager so I was delighted when I saw this film  among the Media Archives’ holdings,” said Margaret Compton, film archivist at the Brown Archives. “We believe this is the only documentary of this quality made about Golden. I am thrilled that Kimberly has written such an in-depth biography, long overdue, of Golden, and that she will be here to share it with us.”

The book talk is presented while an exhibit of Gordon Parks photographs is on display in the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscripts Library gallery (through March 31). “Gordon Parks Confronts the Color Line” shows photographs from Parks’ photo essay that ran in Life magazine in 1956, depicting the effects of segregation in the South two years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is one of a series of exhibitions installed around Athens under the umbrella “Pictures of Us: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection,” which is part of the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

“This Harry Golden book discussion is also a great warm up to the Athens Jewish Film Festival which runs March 19 through 22. We encourage everyone to attend the festival,” Compton said.

Parking is available at the Hull Street Parking Deck, adjacent to the special collections libraries building.

 

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The Scene and the Screen: the Athens, GA/NYC Connection, Part 2 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10406 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10406#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:21:55 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10406

 Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong  began videotaping live performances at both downtown and midtown NYC nightclubs in the mid-70s. They borrowed huge, clunky video cameras from the Manhattan Cable TV channel where Emily worked, and set them up on tripods on dance floors where they videotaped 112 dynamic performances from 82 bands, including two performances from the Athens, GA band Pylon. The very best fan favorites included in this program feature John Cale, The Cramps, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Iggy Pop, Max Blagg, the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and many more.

 Ivers and Armstrong will show the greatest hits of their video collection Saturday, March 19 at 1:30 p.m. at the Russell Special Collections Library auditorium

This will be followed by a panel discussion where Pat and Emily will tell the story of how how their videos were digitized and became a part of the Fales Library Downtown Collection at NYU.

 This program is made possible by a grant from Georgia Humanities and the support of Art Rocks Athens. Other sponsors include Athens Cine, UGA Special Collection Libraries, Nowhere Productions, and Historic Mill House Airbnb.

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Special Collections Libraries’ request system to be upgraded Dec. 15 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10127 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10127#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:23:12 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=10127 The AEON Request System at the Special Collections Libraries will be upgraded  Tuesday, December 15th from 8-10am.

Researchers will not be able to request materials while the upgrade is ongoing.

Materials requested ahead of time will be available to researchers.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

Aeon 3.8 Highlights

Improved User Management

Staff will be able to see the status of researchers more easily.

  • Staff can mark researchers as “Away” for shorter breaks
  • Users who are marked as Away can have a clock symbol on their picture
  • The default user image will be used on the dashboard for Users with no image
  • Signed-in Users will be grouped automatically on the default client layout

Web Page Changes

A number of changes were made to the default Aeon web pages. Some of these changes include:

  • Active Activities can now be displayed on the main menu
  • You can now click anywhere on a table row to open an Activity or Transaction
  • Aeon now has the ability to enforce stricter password requirements for researchers
  • Researchers can now download their request details as an Excel spreadsheet

 *New feature that applies to us: We can now batch clone requests.

 Here is the link for the official release notes for Aeon 3.8: https://prometheus.atlas-sys.com/display/aeon/Aeon+3.8+Release+Notes

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UGA Special Collections Libraries to Host Fall Exhibits Reception http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9890 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9890#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9890 Exhibit Reception graphicThe Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries at the University of Georgia will host its first biannual reception celebrating new exhibitions on display, Nov. 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event will include light refreshments, guided tours, and gallery activities. The reception is free and open to the public.

Exhibitions highlighted include: “Unbeaten, Untied, Undisputed: Georgia’s 1980 National Championship Season,” “Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the Modern South,” “Set Off for Georgia…,” “Hello Freddy! A Tribute to Tony Award Winner Freddy Wittop,” “Selections from the Pennington Radio Collection,” and the annual exhibition honoring new inductees into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

“Unbeaten, Untied, Undisputed: Georgia’s 1980 National Championship Season” revisits the glory days of the 1980 football season, when “Bulldog Bite” played on everyone’s radio and Buck Belue and future Heisman winner Herschel Walker led the Bulldogs to victory. The display features a selection of materials from the UGA Athletic Association archives, including rarely seen photographs, team uniforms, and team gear created and worn by rowdy fans.

“Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the Modern South,” explores the state’s transformation from a way station along the route to Florida into a tourist destination all its own. The exhibit highlights six popular sites in Georgia and considers questions of access, preservation, and economics. A replica roadside stand, 1920s gas pump, as well as historic photographs, postcards, and other ephemera set the scene and invite visitors to explore the tourist experience over the course of the 20th century.

“Set Off for Georgia…” celebrates the 250th anniversary of John and William Bartram’s natural history expedition in colonial Georgia. In 1765, the elder Bartram was appointed the “Royal Botanist” by King George III and, with his son William, set out for South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on a collecting trip that would last two years. The exhibit features original manuscripts, engravings, and maps from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library as well as specimens from the Georgia Natural History Museum.

“Hello Freddy! A Tribute to Tony Award Winner Freddy Wittop” focuses on career highlights of the costume designer who dressed hordes of Broadway actors, Latin Quarter nightclub dancers and Parisian showgirls. From the red-sequined gown worn during the title number of Hello Dolly! to original designs, playbills, and notebooks filled with sketches and swatches, the display spotlights Wittop’s achievements on Broadway, as well as his time as a dancer.

“Selections from the Pennington Radio Collection” features tube radios, external speakers and other artifacts dating from 1913 to 1933, restored by the late Claude L. Pennington Jr. of Macon. A physician who specialized in microsurgery of the inner ear, Pennington was fascinated by another intricate mechanism: the tube radio.

The annual Georgia Writers Hall of Fame exhibit explores the careers of this year’s inductees: Vereen Bell, Taylor Branch, Paul Hemphill, and Janisse Ray. The display includes photographs and selected works by each author.

RSVP to lnessel@uga.edu or call 706.542.3879. For more information about the Special Collections Libraries call 706.542.7123 or visit www.libs.uga.edu/scl

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Latin Americans: The 500-Year Legacy http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9817 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9817#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:26:11 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9817 Latin Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez is the featured book in November for The Rest of the Story bookclub. The discussion will begin at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries and will be led by Latin American specialist Laura D. Shedenhelm, bibliographer for Latin America, Spain & Portugal, University of Georgia Libraries.

This program is part of a series of events funded by a grant to the UGA Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) and the University Libraries for programming about “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History.” The grant is from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA).

As one of 203 grant recipients selected from across the country, the University of Georgia (UGA) will receive a cash grant of $10,000 to hold public programming — such as public film screenings, discussion groups, oral history initiatives, local history exhibitions, multi-media projects or performances — about Latino history and culture.

Programs will continue through Spring 2016

 

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