Colgate University Libraries News and Events

The African American historian, Carter G. Woodson, first conceived of the idea of a Negro History Week (which later became Black History Month). He envisioned a celebration of black history and achievement as well as an educational forum. The first annual celebration took place in 1926. It was held during the 2nd week of February in honor of the birthdays of African American scholar Frederick Douglass and former United States president Abraham Lincoln.
 
The Colgate University Libraries have numerous resources for learning about African American history and experience. Some examples include:

Encyclopedias
Oxford African American Studies Center
Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, Case Ref - DT14 .A37435 2005
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history: the Black experience in the Americas
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
Slavery in the United States: A social, political, and historical encyclopedia
Harlem Renaissance
 
Newspapers & Magazines
Ethnic NewsWatch
African American Newspapers: the 19th Century
African American Newspapers - 1827 - 1998 (Newsbank)
 
Scholarly Articles
America: History and Life
Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
 
Primary Sources
African American frontiers : slave narratives and oral histories
Black Literature Index
Oxford African American Studies Center
Antebellum slave narratives : cultural and political expressions of Africa, CASE Main - E444 .A73 2009  
 
Many other resources are available from the Libraries' African American Studies page or by searching in the Library Catalog.
 
Note: The text was adapted from an article by Marian Aguiar in the Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The photo is by Robert Scurlock, Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The text and photo are available from the Oxford African American Studies Center.

 

Check out the new Faculty Project Showcase page. This page features innovative course assignments and projects that focus on developing student facility and sophistication with information.
 
The first project was added today - Learn how Professor Haberkorn's PEAC 111 students were introduced to and then participated in information practices in the field through the highly successful "Marginalized Conflicts Podcast Project."
 
Projects will be added to the page on an on-going basis. If you know of a project that engaged students in a deeper understanding of information use and practices, please contact me (cmaybee@colgate.edu) about adding it to the site.

Check out Tim O'Keeffe's story, Students create podcasts for collaborative P-Con project, about a collaboration between a Colgate faculty member, a librarian and ITS staff working with a PEAC 111 class to create the Marginalized Conflict Podcast Series available in iTunes.

Come to a 45 minute training session and learn to use RefWorks and Write-N-Cite to semi-automatically format citations and bibliographies in your research papers.
Sessions are in the Cronin Learning Lab (Case-Geyer 501):

 
 
Tuesday, November 18
11:30am – 12:15pm

 
 
Friday, November 21
1:30pm – 2:15pm

 
 
Or call x7402 to schedule an appointment.

 
Carl Peterson, Special Collections Librarian, has created a display in the cases outside of Special Collections on Level 2 of Case-Geyer of election materials over the years with a particular look at the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns.

The Libraries' Open House on Monday, September 1 between 9am and 1pm was a great success! Students who attended all four learning stations in Case-Geyer or Cooley Science Library were eligible to enter a drawing to win great prizes provided by the Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS). Congratulations to the winners:

Alex Restrepo `12 - 1st Prize: 2GB Flip Video Camera

Paige Carlos `09 - 2nd Prize: 4GB iPod Nano

Isaac Syrop `09 - 3rd Prize: $50 iTunes Giftcard

Monday, September 1, 2008, 9am to 1pm
Stop by between classes to learn about services offered by Libraries and Information Technology Services.

• Interactive Information Stations to answer your questions
• Free continental breakfast at Cooley Science Library
• $2 off coupon at Case-Geyer’s Hieber Cafe

Visit all four Information Stations at either library, and enter our contest to win:

• First Prize: Flip Video Camera
• Second Prize: 4GB iPod Nano
• Third Prize: $50 iTunes giftcard