The UIC Library and Adam Matthew, the digital publisher, invite you to aworkshop about the use of African American Communities, a curated digital collection, which includes materials from UIC's Special Collections.
The workshop will be held in 1-010, the classroom in Daley Library's Idea Commons (first door to the left, as you walk south from the circulation desk) on November 24 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm.
African American Communities focuses on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina. The collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories. It also includes a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, postcards, maps and ephemera. African American Communities reveals the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration and documents African American culture and identity.
For more information about the collection, click on http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/african-american-communities/. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Wiberley, wiberley@uic.edu
