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Have you seen the Halloween decorations in the SDSU Library? Stop by and take a look! If you can’t come here in person, here’s a few photos of various library departments. We’re having a department decorating competition and a pumpkin carving competition today as well.
Serials
Student Computing Center
Reference Services
Media Center
Government Publications
Circulation
Library Administration
Which department gets your vote for best Halloween decorations?
Some of you may remember a popular exhibit we had in 2009 titled “Creating Community: African Americans in San Diego.” The exhibit featured materials from various African American archives and collections housed in Special Collections. Since the time of that exhibit, a lot of people have been working hard to build a broader collection, one with a strong emphasis on the Civil Rights Era in San Diego.
That hard work has resulted in The Harold K. Brown Civil Rights and African American Experience Collection, named after Harold K. Brown, a prominent leader of the civil rights movement in San Diego. Brown is an SDSU alumnus (class of 1959) who later became the first African American administrator at SDSU. Mr. Brown is one of those people who worked hard to create this collection, so I’m going to let you listen to what he has to say about it in this video created by the Urban League of San Diego County:
On October 22 at 4pm, we’re celebrating the Harold K. Brown Civil Rights and African American Experience Collection with a reception at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Lynn Hawkes at lhawkes@mail.sdsu.edu.
More about the collection:
Oral Histories in Special Collections
Creating Community Online Exhibit
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