The Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida features an impressive array of museum-style displays and vibrant public art after the facility was renovated recently. With an emphasis on the area’s history and African American population, the permanent displays explore the history of the historic black business district of Central Avenue…

Archives and library professionals have been taking a closer look at their descriptive practices, with an eye toward reducing and eliminating offensive, derogatory, and outdated language and enhancing access to materials that otherwise might be left undiscovered. Deemed “conscious editing” by its practitioners, these initiatives serve to “bring an active, critical awareness of bias, privilege,…

The African American Experience in the U.S. (AAEUS) collection brings together research and scholarly works from different collections across the Digital Commons repository, with the majority of works coming from three main sources: Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2002 forward have been deposited into the institutional repository by graduating Masters and PhD students.  Transdisciplinary research on…