Greetings HBCU Library Alliance Membership! It is an honor to serve as Board Chair. I am excited about this opportunity to give back to an organization that assisted me in my leadership role as the Director of the James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University (NC). The Board members, Executive Director Sandra …
A new and innovative summer enrichment program is in full “gear” at Alabama State University. Hundreds of students from the Montgomery Public Schools (MPS) system rolled up in yellow buses Wednesday, May 11 through Friday, May 13 to learn more about the ASU GEAR UP camps and educational enhancement programs that have been funded by … Continue reading
At its Spring 2022 Association Meeting held in Toronto, Canada, April 25–April 28, the membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted to invite the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center (AUC), Inc., to join ARL as the 127th member, effective July 1, 2022. Loretta Parham, AUC CEO and library director, accepted … Continue reading
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in partnership with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) recently awarded a $94,817 grant to Grambling State University’s (GSU) Department of History to research and record the history of the African American experience in northern Louisiana. “Voices of Grambling: A Digital Oral History Project,” intersects with the 120-year … Continue reading
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