The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is thrilled to announce two sister exhibitions to be held August 28, 2023 - May 17, 2024, in Special Collections, in the Woodward Family Reading Room, 4th floor South Wing of the Fresno State Library.
Words Matter! The Inclusive Cataloging Movement Takes Flight expands upon the Critical Cataloging movement and its significance for the Fresno State Library in particular, highlighting injustices in the knowledge organizational systems of libraries and why we need inclusive cataloging practices to counter racism, antisemitism, and other limitations built into how we search and find information.
The companion exhibition is a textile art exhibition showcasing works produced by catalog librarians and metadata specialists in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Titled Unseen Labor: An International Library Community Organizing Embroidery Project and Exhibit about Metadata, Our Stories, and Our Service. First envisioned by Ann Kardos (UMass, Amherst), this is a traveling exhibit that is being hosted at Fresno State. More information can be found in the exhibition catalog.
Special Collections will be hosting several sponsored events during the course of these two exhibitions such as hosting zine making workshops, Zoom panel discussions, a cross stitch activity, providing catalog cards for public art activities, and supplying crossword puzzles and coloring pages.
Some of these freely available activities/events during the fall semester 2023 include:
Open House, September 1, 2023, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (in SCRC) Please drop by to see both exhibitions! Meet the Special Collections Team who has curated and installed these exhibitions: Tammy Lau, Head of Special Collections and University Archivist; Julie Renee Moore, Special Collections Catalog Librarian; Adam Wallace, Lead Special Collections & Digital Archives Specialist; Suzanne Lopez, Special Collections and Archives Assistant.
Change the Subject (documentary screening), September 20, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. (in LIB 2206.) Discussion following the screening with Julie Moore about what has happened with this Library of Congress Subject Heading, "Illegal Aliens" since this documentary was released.
ArtOber (Making art on catalog cards), October 4, 2023, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (in SCRC)
Join us for an afternoon of fun, making art on catalog cards with Suzanne Lopez, Special Collections and Archives Assistant and Samuel Iliff, Fresno State Geology and Art student.
Words Matter for the CSU: Inclusive Description Task Force (CSU Libraries Network), October 17, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (freely available via Zoom) Find out about the inclusive description initiatives that this Task Force has been working on for our 23 campuses of the California State University Libraries Network
Speakers: Luiz Mendes, CSU Northridge; Allison Bailund, CSU San Diego; Julie Renee Moore, CSU Fresno
Zine Making Workshop
November 9, 2023, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (in SCRC)
Join us for an afternoon of making and sharing zines. Led by Virginia Patterson, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Fresno State Department of Art and Design
Further information will be available on our SCRC website.
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Rachel Rosekind
Educator, Editor, Writer, Activist, Library Commissioner
Write You Are / Contra Costa Library Commission
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