Folks, I’m pleased to share updates from the Wesleyan Library on our work towards a more just library, campus, and world. We welcome your questions, suggestions, and collaborations as we continue this crucial work. — Andrew White, University Librarian Team A – Walls of the Library Team A has been working on a few different … Read more
The Library recently joined MIT’s Direct to Open program, and is excited to see this cross-library collaboration gain ground as MIT seeks to invigorate the publishing of academic open access ebooks.
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This guest post for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage was written by Stuart Wheeler, MA ‘21, who has spent the past several months working with the World Music Archives as well as Special Collections & Archives to help process collections from contemporary American composers including John Cage and Ned Sublette. One of his projects was … Read more
A new exhibit, Wesleyan: In Sickness and in Health, is on display in Olin Library. “Why this topic?” you say, “Haven’t we heard enough about disease lately?” Good point. We are sick of hearing about people getting sick.
We know the days leading up to your campus arrival date can drag on, and that many students are eager to get back into the swing of things. With this in mind, we thought we’d give you an opportunity to channel your anticipation and creative energy. As part of our 2021 orientation offerings, the library … Read more
I’m a rising senior here at Wes, and last semester I had the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Wendi Field Murray in the Archaeology & Anthropology Collections (AAC) to build a tutorial centered around Museum Collections Care and Management. In the coming months, I will be sharing some of the lessons I learned.
In July 2020, Wesleyan Library formed five staff teams to examine how we could fight systemic racism and promote social justice in our organization and daily work, and contribute to a more equitable and just Wesleyan campus and global community. Below are highlights from the initiatives we’ve undertaken this past year and the next steps … Read more
The gankogui is a metal percussion instrument from the Ewe people in Ghana. It is made of two metal bells – one large and one small – fused together at the neck where a long thin handle is attached. Like many other metal tools in Ghanaian society, it is crafted by a blacksmith, who sources the material from scrap metal from cars, broken farm tools such as hoes and machetes, and even from other broken gankoguis.
The Library wishes to express profound sadness and anger about recent acts of violence against Asian and Asian-American people.
