Post-Tragedy Archive Collection
Memorial displays (as shown) inside the Squires Student Center lobby at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg are part of Prevail Archives, a project underway by the University Libraries and Library of Congress consultants. The more than 87,000 expressions of condolences related to the April 16, 2007, tragedy that killed 32 people and injured several others are being gathered to provide primary source materials on how people grieve and offer consolation after a major tragedy. Librarians consulted with colleagues at other universities that developed archives after their own tragic events.
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“Even though Spaulding’s name is not readily recognized, he was an American patriot who safeguarded the freedoms of US citizens by writing the Library Bill of Rights.”
Teresa Wood, describing Forrest Brisbane Spaulding, head of Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library from 1929 to 1952, as depicted in the play The Not So Quiet Librarian, “A Librarian to Remember,” Webster City (Iowa) Daily Freeman-Journal, Apr. 20.
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