The University Libraries announced the formation of the Anti-Racism Task Force, a subgroup of the Libraries’ Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee. The Anti-Racism Task Force will work to strengthen the diversity of the Libraries’ collections and provide resources related to oppression and system racism. The Task Force members are: Mona Ramonetti (chair), Chris Filstrup, Victoria Pilato, and Catrina Reed.
Health Sciences librarian Gregg Stevens was accepted as a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). This recognition requires substantial productivity in the areas of professional development, service to the medical library profession, and scholarship.
On Wednesday, October 28, the University Libraries presented a live-streamed program of dramatic readings of stories from the pulp-fiction magazine, Weird Tales. The program, titled Weird Tales Out of Copyright, was designed to entertain while also teaching attendees about some elements of copyright.
On September 30, the Art in Focus lecture series took place via Zoom. Helen Harrison, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Director of the Pollock-Krasner House spoke about “Jackson Pollock and Jazz.” Other lectures in the series included artist Christian White speaking on “Reconciling Realism with Modernism” on October 13 and Nancy Moses discussing “Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds” on October 27.
