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Awareness and Celebration of LGBTQ+ Community

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International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is March 31st, 2020. It is a day to celebrate transgender people, their contributions to society, as well as raise awareness of the discrimination they face worldwide. The Indiana University East Campus Library is a dedicated Safe Space and our librarians and staff participate in regular training and professional development, such as Safe Zone, to better serve those members of the community who identify as LGBTQ+. This past month, IU East librarians Beth South and KT Lowe had the opportunity to attend the National Association of Social Workers 3rd Annual Conference on Serving Sexual & Gender Minority (GSM) populations. This conference was hosted by NASW’s Indiana Chapter Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. … Continued

A Day of Thanksgiving and Learning

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Campus is closed for the Thanksgiving break on November 28-29. If you’ve watched the 1973 film ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ and want to learn about the holiday beyond Linus’ speech, the library has plenty of resources to use. To start, databases like American History Online offer plenty of primary sources, including the December 12, 1621 letter by Edward Winslow (a Pilgrim who attended the first feast) and George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving proclamation, along with articles, news, and more. A free tool on the internet, the Library of Congress’s American Memory includes many other Thanksgiving resources, including more primary documents, artwork, and teachers’ tools. AVON’s American History in Video collection and the Government Publishing Office offer many videos that relate to the … Continued

This is Halloween

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With a documented history spanning roughly two millennia and traditions spanning across the world, Halloween is one of the most widely celebrated holidays in the United States. It’s also an incredibly lucrative holiday, with this year’s spending total expected to reach $8.8 billion in the US alone. Halloween, according to folklorist Jack Santino, is a holiday that is intended to stretch borders – those of exploration, identity, marginality and, in some cases, rules themselves. The celebrations, which involve costumes, jack o’ lanterns, candy, horror movies and remembrance of the dead, demonstrate a great deal of syncretism, blending Celtic, Hispanic and American traditions into one magnificent event. A mere sample of the Halloween-related items in the collection of IU East librarian … Continued

What month is it? You decide!

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June is popular for lots of reasons – sun, summer vacation, art fairs, festivals and did I mention sun? Yet June is also a popular month for assigning various themes and causes. The IU East Campus Library is happy to help you celebrate any month you please! Pride Month: The landmark Stonewall Riots, which took place at the Stonewall Inn in New York City from June 28, 1969 to July 1, 1969, are widely recognized as the catalyst of the LGBTQ liberation movement. In recognition of this momentous event, the last Sunday of June was informally recognized as Pride Day in many large urban communities. In 1995, LGBT Pride Month was officially declared by the General Assembly of the National … Continued