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UR helps New Orleans Library
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River Campus Libraries raised
$5,000 for books for the library of
Southern University at New Orleans! |
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JAMBALIBRARY was our
week of fundraising activities.
See details in a
UR "Currents" article.
So many books were donated to our Dollar Book
Sale,
we raised over $3,000! |
We had noontime
talks by faculty on blues, jazz,
and Katrina's impact on New Orleans. |
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Raffle!!
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Many,
many items (including the bike shown below) were donated.
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On Friday, the River Campus
Jazz Band and a quartet of faculty from the Eastman School of Music performed. |
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| Hurricane Katrina devastated the library
of the New Orleans campus of Southern University. Their first floor was
under water ("in the soup") for three weeks, and their Reference collection,
books by and about African-Americans, children's books, and books in the
areas of psychology, religion, history, and biography were destroyed.
We (and others) "adopted" their library. |
The Southern University System (www.sus.edu)
is the only historically black university system in America.
Southern University at New Orleans was created primarily to serve the needs
of the African American community in and around the Greater New Orleans
area. Its mission is now that of an open enrollment institution, serving
all who want access to higher education, but especially serving the "socio-economically
disadvantaged" of Greater New Orleans.
More (pre-Katrina) details are at
www.sus.edu/at_a_glance/WebBrochure.pdf |
Trailers ... will serve as classrooms ...
Trailers for housing ... not yet arrived.
(photo by Brian Gauvin)
(Chronicle of Higher Education 1-20-06)
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E-mail questions and comments about the project to
SUNO@library.rochester.edu
The
"adopt-a-library" program was
organized by the American Library Association. The River Campus Libraries' partners
in our efforts for SUNO are Tufts University, University of Pittsburgh, Lehigh University,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Swarthmore College, Earlham College, University of
Central Florida, and Purdue University.
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