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Library Focus (Fall 2001), University Libraries
Library Focus (Fall 2001), University Libraries
Library Focus
The Fall 2001 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring instructions for creating a personal library web site; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the de Grummond collection; civil rights letters and posters in the digital archives; the 2001 Southeastern Library Network Outstanding Library Program Award given to University Libraries; new electronic resources; a Curious George exhibit in Japan; and a new digitization grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker
Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi
Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi
Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs
The program for the thirty-third annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2001.
Public Librarians And The Civil Rights Movement: Alabama, 1955-1965, Patterson Toby Graham
Public Librarians And The Civil Rights Movement: Alabama, 1955-1965, Patterson Toby Graham
Faculty Publications
Racial segregation in southern public libraries affected millions of African Americans before the Civil Rights movement, and for librarians in the South it created a conflict between professional and regional values. Ultimately, it was the efforts of black activists rather than librarians acting on their ethical impulses that ended library segregation. Librarians were constrained by local racial customs, Jim Crow laws, and, often, by their own racial attitudes. Also, librarians recognized that there were inherent dangers associated with defying the segregationists. There were a few, however, who challenged the racial status quo, and these individuals demonstrated the potential of librarians …