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African Americana Library News

HBCU Digital Collection
Jun 16, 2008
Founding of historically black colleges and universities celebrated

Library for Congressman Clyburn
Jun 4, 2008
New transportation center will include the South Carolina State University Historical Collection

Avery Research Center news
May 30, 2008
Archivist Georgette Mayo to Direct the Avery Center.

Proposal to Move AAL to HPNL
May 13, 2008
Afro-American Bibliographic Unit to join the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library

Black Thursday Digital Exhibit
Apr 30, 2008
Wisconsin State University of Oshkosh's Polk Library has created an on-line exhibit about the the 1968 black student protest on campus entitled “Do Your Thing.”

African American Studies Center

Apr 8, 2008

The Oxford African American Studies Center features the three-volume
Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895; the three-volume Black Women in America; and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from forthcoming print publications including
the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes); and the Encyclopedia of
African American Art and Architecture. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers
other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to
African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.
Core reference content is enhanced by material and features that help students expand their
research, including bibliographies, interactive timelines and maps, thematic photo essays and image
collections, key primary source documents, and editorially selected links to Internet resources.