September 27, 2016 Luncheon
Tue, September 27 2016, 11:30am
Campus Club ABC
Did you know?
The University of Minnesota Libraries’ Department of Archives and Special Collections has 17 distinct collecting areas?
There are two caverns beneath Andersen Library containing over 120,000 cubic feet of archival materials and over 1.2 million volumes?
Special Collections and Rare Books curator Tim Johnson and I look forward to meeting you on September 27! Our goal is to whet your appetite to learn more about Archives and Special Collections and our amazing holdings, which support both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research for K-12 and University of Minnesota students, as well as scholars from around the world. We are one of the largest special collections departments in an academic setting in the country, and our collections are both broad and deep. Our curatorial staff generates a dynamic mix of collection development, teaching, research, and outreach.
Recent successes in the collections include an award to the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies—the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s inaugural Newlen-Symons Award for Service to the GLBT Community. The work of the Tretter Collection fulfilled all four of the award’s criteria: innovation, impact, sustainability, and advocacy.
In addition, the Givens Collection of African American Literature has received several grants over the last three years to develop Umbra: Search African American History, a federated search application and web site that has gathered over 400,000 digital objects from 1,000 institutions across the country relating to African American history and culture.
After the luncheon presentation at the Campus Club, we will welcome you to toour the Andersen Library for a more in-depth look at some of our world-renowned collections, and an even deeper look into the caverns that are the state-of-the-art storage facility for the collections.
— Kris Kiesling, director of the Elmer L. Andersen Archives and Special Collections
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