Engaging With Campus and Community: Insights From a Traveling Exhibition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2023
Publication Title
College & Research Libraries News
DOI
10.5860/crln.84.6.217
Abstract
Exhibitions draw people to libraries. They encourage visitors to engage with objects and media in a public space and provide opportunities for discovery within the library’s collection. Not every library has the resources to create original exhibitions, however. Traveling exhibitions, which arrive ready to set up in the library’s existing space, can alleviate some of the labor involved in creating exhibitions while providing the same benefits for the library. The Penn State University Libraries, Georgia Southern University Libraries, and University of Mississippi Libraries each hosted Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in late 2021 and early 2022. In this article, we describe the ways each library leveraged the exhibition for community engagement, as well as some of the keys to success that can inform other academic libraries considering hosting a traveling exhibition.
Recommended Citation
Grove, Tara Murray, Clara Drummond, J. Adam Clemons, Autumn Johnson.
2023.
"Engaging With Campus and Community: Insights From a Traveling Exhibition."
College & Research Libraries News, 84 (6): 217-222: Association of College and Research Libraries.
doi: 10.5860/crln.84.6.217
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/lib-facpubs/194
Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty member, Autumn Johnson co-authored Engaging With Campus and Community: Insights From a Traveling Exhibition.