Black History Month - more library resources

Black History Month - President Obama and Frederick Douglass

February is known as the month to celebrate African-American History Month following the remembrance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and the second inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States.

To enhance your African-American History experience, the TCC Library website (http://library.tulsacc.edu ) has a variety of electronic resources (e-resources) to help you participate in the celebration.

The Black History Month research guide (created by a librarian) provides one-stop research help and useful e-resources about this history--including Tulsa resources on African-American History and links to online African-American collections from the Library of Congress. It also includes a great online exhibit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Use TCC library resources to learn about the impact of civil rights on American History (i.e. Emancipation Proclamation, post-World War II civil rights, affirmative action) by searching for “race and civil rights” in articles at Issues & Controversies in American History --an article database available at the Library website under the Article Databases tab.

Access the Digital Libraries or e-books by clicking on the yellow Books & More tab at the Library homepage.  Access research guides and article databases by clicking on the respective yellow tabs at the Library homepage. 

Authored by Demetrious Bereolos, Library Specialist, West Campus

ARTstor and Black History Month 2013

 Jacob Lawrence | The Migration of the Negro, panel no. 3 | 1940 – 1941 |Image and original data provided by The Museum of Modern Art. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists  Rights Society (ARS), New York . ARTstor.

In celebration of Black History Month, one of our subscription resources, ARTstor, located on our website under the tab, Reference Shelf, has developed partnerships with various art museums and collections to provide access to art by and depicting African Americans. 

ARTstor’s partnership with Museum of Modern Art and the Phillips Gallery includes Jacob Lawrence’s complete series on the migration of many African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the United States.  To see the full series with 139 images in ARTstor, simply search Jacob Lawrence Migration.

Milton Rogovin (right) from Loc.gov

Other special partnership collection offers 260 images from the Milton Rogovin: Social Documentary Photographs collection. http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/rogovin_milton

Milton Rogovin began his first photographic series in 1958 to document African-American storefront churches in Buffalo, NY, and would go on to photograph the working people and ethnic communities. Rogovin would continue his photography career with his work appearing in more than 160 journals, magazines, and other collections. 

Other upcoming artwork to appear in ARTstor in honor of Black History Month includes:

• 1000 images of paintings and collage materials by Romare Bearden.

• Artwork by artists of the African Diaspora produced after 1940 from the Mott-Warsh Collection that includes Jacob Lawrence, Ron Adams, Faith Ringold, Richard Yarde, and more. 

 To learn more about using ARTstor to explore African American studies, look at this subject guide in handout format by ARTstor http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/sg_african-american.pdf

Textbooks in the Library

Did you know that the Library keeps the top 25 textbooks for their campus on reserve for student use?

Here’s how it works. The student fills out a short agreement form and presents his/her student ID card at the information desk. Students can use the textbook in the library for up to two hours at a time as many times as they like during the semester.  These books cannot be checked out.

We also have copy machines where copies can be made for 10 cents a page.  Copyright laws do apply.

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Authored by Tammy Thomason, Library Assistant II, Southeast Campus Library