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Maker Hub Hosts 3rd Annual Valentines Day Last Minute Thoughtful and Considerate Gifts Workshop

Did you wake up and realize that tomorrow is Valentine’s day? Is your special someone expecting a thoughtful, considerate gift and you haven’t given it any thought or consideration until the last minute? Then come on down to the Maker Hub for our “Valentine’s Day Last Minute Thoughtful and Considerate Gifts” workshop.

Recommended Reading: Africans On the Move

Africans have been on the move since the 1st century and across the Atlantic since the late 15th century; and the recent trends show that populations from West Africa continue to cross over into Europe, while East Africans migrate into Europe and parts of Asia and the Middle East in search of secure labor. The December – January Recommended Reading exhibit features key works on these themes.

Basic numbers have been crunched by the renowned historian Philip Curtin in his well-known history of slaving: The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Other excellent scholarship on the Middle Passage include the works of Marty Klein (Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa); Claude Meillassoux (The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold); and Paul Lovejoy (Transformations in Slavery). A recent popular theme for slaving is reparations. For this, see Rhoda Howard-Hassmann’s Reparations to Africa. Africans on the move within the continent receives enlightened attention in Ed Wilmsen’s Land Filled with Flies, a Herskovitts Award winner.    

Media Equipment Moving from Gelardin to Circulation Desk

In January 2020, the Library’s circulating media equipment will be moving from the Gelardin New Media Center to the third-floor Circulation Desk area, allowing the Library to better integrate services, and will improve our users’ experience by enabling them to check out all Library items from a single point on the entry level.