Black History Month at The Art Institute of Atlanta Library

For Black History Month this year, the librarian, two library student assistants, and members of the faculty and administration at the Art Institute of Atlanta collaborated to create a project consisting of a LibGuide, library materials in various formats, and a large banner on which students could write responses to the question, "Whom would you be in Black history, and why?" This project came about as a synthesis of the librarian's initial vision and two other proposals, one from a faculty member and the other from an administrator. The librarian had planned a simple display highlighting the contributions of African American librarians from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era. This display was also intended to show how the profession's almost exclusively nonminority predecessors had shaped--and misshaped--the institutions that today's librarians have inherited.