Tag: Libraries: Page 35

HBCUs

Encyclopedia of African-American Education. – book reviews

This unique, well-organized and well documented work is an essential source about African American education that fills a noticeable gap in resources in this area. It brings together a collection of laws, biographies, concepts, journals, movements, organizations, and institutions from varied sources and presents them in a single, useful volume.

July 11, 2007

African-American

Holding on to African American history

For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

HBCUs

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

When Emma Bradford Perry arrived at Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge from Harvard four years ago to head up that school’s library, the first thing she did close the card catalog.

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC battling back after major surgery – University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON It was with poetic irony that Mother Nature dealt the northeastern states one final blow of frosty weather on April Fool’s Day.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

We’ve all had to adjust on Capitol Hill

Covering Capitol Hill over the past two years represents a prime example of how important it is for journalists to stay flexible and learn new rules of the trade to remain productive.

June 20, 2007

Home

Kahlil Gibran Manuscripts Donated to Princeton

TRENTON, N.J. The Princeton University Library has received a donation of working manuscripts and notebooks for four well-known Kahlil Gibran books, including the Lebanese-American’s best-selling The Prophet.

June 20, 2007

Home

Recovering yesterday – collection and preservation of African American history

Today, celebrations of “Black History Month” stretch from Kwanzaa, through Martin Luther King’s birthday, through February, and sometimes through Malcolm X’s birthday in March. It is easy to forget that just thirty years ago some people wondered if there was enough Black history to even fill up a week. In 1968 a CBS television special, Black History Lost, Missing or Stolen?, captured the then-current feeling that no one knew, or had preserved, the true story of African American contributions to this society.

June 15, 2007

African-American

Dorothy Porter Wesley: preserver of Black history – Afro-American librarian

The extraordinary career of Dorothy Porter Wesley spanned sixty-five years, from her appointment in 1930 as librarian at Howard University’s nascent Moorland Foundation, a Library of Negro Life, until her death on December 17, 1995. Through out this period she remained the quintessential librarian — a collector and dispenser of knowledge. She was an elder in the community of scholars who had experienced the continuum that is history and was a vast reservoir of wisdom, which she imparted to successive generations of students of Black history and culture.

June 15, 2007

HBCUs

HBCU Library Alliance Hosts Panel Discussion On Leadership

A group involved with the leadership development of librarians at historically Black colleges and universities is concerned about an upcoming leadership crisis created by the impending retirements of numerous HBCU library leaders.

March 31, 2007

Home

A Priceless Collection

In order to ensure the Clayton Collection’s perpetuity for the scores of Africana scholars in this country…

February 21, 2007

Home

Safeguarding Black History

Back when Harry Truman was in the White House, long before “Black History Month” became part of our lexicon…

January 24, 2007