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Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library... at last!

This represents a Perpetual Exhibit, for the history of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library is being made at this writing. 

History will continue to be made as classes of MLS students, theater students, education students, doctoral students and countless others are gently coaxed into excellence--an excellence that shines just below the surface and is buffed to brilliance by the discerning spirit that is librarian Deloice Holliday.

And so, in honor of those for whom the library exists to serve and for those, now gone, who served to guarantee its existence, we dedicate this exhibit.

May it be continued by those who find a sense of belonging by exploring the resonant stories of the ones who came before.

 

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OUR LIBRARIANS THROUGH THE LENS OF "Sankofa"

"The concept of Sankofa is derived from King Adinkera of the Akan people of West Afrika. Sankofa is expressed in the Akan language as se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki.

Literally translated it means it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.

Sankofa teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated.

Visually and symbolically Sankofa is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth."

from W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center,Kansas City, MO

In the spirit of Sankofa, we look back at NMBCC Library history with a pictorial progression through The Librarians...

 

 

 

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