Resources and Tools
The Coretta Scott King Rose Gallery (click to be directed to webpage)
The Coretta Scott King Rose Gallery is an immersive virtual gallery hosted on The King Center website in partnership with Microsoft. This online space chronicles the life of Mrs. Coretta Scott King through audio and video recordings presented in frames along the walls of the gallery. Dr. Bernice King introduces the gallery and space on the first webpage in virtual atrium in front of multiple sets of staircases that represents different areas of interests or time periods. Along the top of the page there are three buttons, “Donate Now”, “Bookstore” and “Timeline” along the bottom of the screen are the bouttons “ Back,” “Next” “Help” and “full screen”. The timeline button allows you to navigate through the different time periods that are featured visually along in the space. This resource uses the archive to present the life of Mrs. King and is a great way of organizing and providing researchers with interests in black history, civil rights, and Mrs. King’s performance history access to the collection.
Communication with Diverse Populations
Ontario Museum Association presentation on Community Based Organizations (click to be directed to webpage)
The Ontario Museum Association (OMA) was established in 1972 and is a non-profit member organization that represents 700 museums, galleries, and historic sites. The OMA’s Resource Hub is a collection of materials that support museum work. Even though the target audience is museum workers many of these tools can benefit archival workers as well, like the resource for Community-based collections.
The Resource Hub features a variety videos, presentation slidedecks, and toolkits. The website visitor can browse the material by the date it was posted, by type, publisher, or by category. The Community-based collections post is a presentation that was part of the OMA Indigenous Collections Symposium, Mashkawatgong mamawewiziwin – Strengthening our bonds, sharing our practices in 2021. This presentation offers an approach to working with indigenous materials and communities.
Programming and events for diverse populations.
Programming and events for diverse populations.
Rose Library Archives Exhibitions, Emory University (click to be directed to webpage)
The exhibitions at The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library create access to a large array of archival materials across 7 different programs and collections. The African American History and Culture; along with the Emory University Archives; Literary and Poetry; Political, Cultural, and Social Movements; Rare Books; Southern History Collection and Oral History Program preserve a significant portion of our Black history and its relationship to civil movements in the Southern United States.
“At the Crossroads” co-curated by Tina Dunkley, Amy Alznauer, Rosemary M. Magee, Gabrielle M. Dudley, and Nagueyalti Warren was a collaboration amongst experts and scholars on each of the artists. Using archival photos, letters, artifacts, and artwork, the exhibition shares how each artist engaged with their local Georgia environment and how Georgia impacted their work. The library also organized an assortment of programming around the exhibition to promote engagement.
Other Offerings
Scholar in Residence Program at The Schomburg (click to be directed to webpage)
The Scholar in Residence Program at The Schomburg is an opportunity for researchers to conduct research in the archives on a long-term and short-term basis. This generously funded program is designed to support research and writing on the history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center.
Founded in 1925, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences in Harlem, New York As part of The New York Public Library, the Schomburg Center features diverse programming and collections spanning over 11 million items.