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Exhibits for June & July, 2010
Main exhibit case:

What I Did This Summer: Adventures in Chicagoland

Selections from the Library’s collection highlighting things to do and see in the Chicagoland area. Contact Rebecca Cremin with questions or comments at 630-942-2978.

Upstairs display cubes:
Ceramics by College of DuPage ceramics students

For more information about exhibiting your work in the library, see the Library Exhibit Policy or contact Rebecca Cremin, Library Coordinator, at (630) 942-2978.

Check out the Library events calendar to see what’s happening in the Library.

Exhibits for February, 2010
Main exhibit case and library lobby:

“The Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966″
A Photographic Exhibit

After the march from Selma to Montgomery and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the civil rights movement did not die; only its focus and objectives changed. National leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Al Raby, Ralph Abernathy, Bill Berry and others, turned their attention to ghettos, poverty, racial segregation, hunger and all of the other challenges plaguing Northern cities such as Chicago.

In Chicago in 1965 and 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders focused the civil rights movement on open housing. Thousands of people participated in the marches and rallies in Soldier Field, Marquette Park, Grant Park and in front of Chicago City Hall. These demonstrations are now known as the Chicago Freedom Movement.

This was the first large scale fair housing campaign in the country and the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the North. It placed the issue of equal opportunity in housing not just before the people of Chicago, but also before the Nation.

Bernard Kleina’s rarely seen color photographs document the 1965-1966 Freedom Movement’s peaceful demonstrations’ call for open housing. The exhibit celebrates the efforts of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders and includes images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Coretta Scott-King; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; former UN Ambassador, Andrew Young; comedian activist, Dick Gregory; gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson; and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, as well as thousands of peaceful demonstrators involved in these historic rallies and marches. The photographs also capture many of those who attempted to disrupt these peaceful marches.

For more information on this Chicago Freedom Movement exhibit, contact HOPE Fair Housing Center at 630-690-6500 or kleinapro@aol.com.

This exhibit is sponsored by the College of DuPage African Studies Committee. For more information about the exhibit contact Cynthia Johnson in Community Development at 630-942-3872.

Upstairs display cubes:
Ceramics by College of DuPage ceramics students

For more information about exhibiting your work in the library, see the Library Exhibit Policy or contact Rebecca Cremin, Library Coordinator, at (630) 942-2978.

Check out the Library events calendar to see what’s happening in the Library.

November – January

Celebrating Our Own

Featuring creative works by C.O.D. faculty and Staff

Creative works by faculty and staff are exhibited throughout the library. The exhibit includes books, articles, dissertations, paintings, photographs, costumes, theater props, ceramics, board games, jewelry, and other creative works.

Read the full text of some contributions in the college’s Digital Commons:

• Bob Georgalas, Keith Krasemann, Chikako Kumamoto, Chris Petersen, Lois Stanciak, and Ben Whisenhunt, editors: ESSAI v.6 (2008)
  ESSAI v. 5 (2007)
• Mary Konkel: Ebooks in the OPAC @ C.O.D.
  On the Road… In the Field: Response to the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• Mark Maller: Animals and the Problem of Evil in Recent Theodicies
• Eva Marie Raepple: Divan Japonais: Toulouse-Lautrec and Japanese Art
  “Experience Does Not Err” (Leonardo Da Vinci) – Artwork as a Mirror of Nature

Photographs in Digital Commons:

• Jeff Curto: The Italian Portfolio: Evidence of Hands on Stone

Web sites worked on by exhibit contributors:

• College of DuPage Press: Explore Church History
• Dale Simpson: Gateway to the Pacific, Pacific anthropology at the Field Museum

For more information about exhibiting your work in the library, see the Library Exhibit Policy or contact Rebecca Cremin, Library Coordinator, at (630) 942-2978.

The library is hosting two exhibits on China. In the outside display case are photographs of ethnic Chinese women taken by C.O.D. professor Werner Krieglstein on a college-sponsored trip to China led by Professor Jane Wu.

Upstairs is the Road to the Olympics exhibit featuring large photographs of China’s preparations for the summer 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Both exhibits are sponsored by the Asia Committee and will run through April 30th. For more information contact Jane Wu at 630-942-3402 or wujane@cod.edu.