Mini Collections

Mini Collections 

Beginning in the Spring of 2019, I began an initiative at the Trinity College Raether Library to curate physical and virtual mini collections to increase and highlight the representation of historically marginalized groups in our collections. I worked collaboratively with colleagues, faculty, and student groups to co-curate the following mini collections:  AAPI Heritage Month, Afrofuturism (for Black history month), Latine Heritage Month, National Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month, Pride Month, Banned & Challenged Books, an MLK Reading List, and Juneteenth. These collections were advertised via digital signage, social media posts and stories, posters, campus communications, events, pop-up libraries, and library displays to increase their visibility and campus engagement. To date, these guides, along with the Tulsa race massacre, antiracism reading list, Black resistance and empowerment poetry collection, and the read Black women/Black nonbinary writers collection have a combined 7,445 views.