Digital Exhibit Features the Chicano Studies Library
September 19, 2024
A remarkable digital humanities project about Berkeley’s own Chicano Studies Library has just launched! It’s called Bibliopolítica: A Digital History of the Chicano Studies Library, and it features a fabulous digital exhibit, oral histories with key figures in the development of the library (including our own Lily Castillo-Speed!), and a whole range of illuminating archival items. As the project description notes:
Bibliopolítica shares the stories of trailblazing library workers, students and community members who worked to preserve and make Chicana/o/x resources available. Featuring photographs, ephemera, archival documents, and oral histories, Bibliopolítica offers an original digital collection of primary sources and is the first audiovisual history of this special place that helped redefine what libraries could be.
What a powerfully important digital history!