Uplaoded new metadata csv, edited timeline, edited about page and bla…

…ck library page, edit homepage,

_config.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ author: Libby Cave and Mark McFate
 #
 # Set the metadata for your collection (the name of the CSV file in your _data directory that describes the objects in your collection) 
 # Use the filename of your CSV **without** the ".csv" extension! E.g. _data/demo-metadata.csv --> "demo-metadata"
-metadata: black-library_CSV_CollectionBuilder_metadata-for-Export
+metadata: black-library_CSV_10_3_2024
 # page generation settings [optional!]
 # [optional: only used if you need to tweak CB defaults or generate from more than one data file]
 # page_gen:

_layouts/home-infographic.html

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   <div class="col-md-8">
 
     {% include index/description.html %}
+    {% include feature/timelinejs.html %}
     {% include index/carousel.html title="Sample Items" %}
 
   </div>

assets/data/timelinejs.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # current using relative_url due to jekyll bug, should be absolute_url in production!
 # to just feature parent objects of compound objects, you will want to change the where_exp below to "where_exp: 'item','item.parentid == nil'"
 ---
-{%- assign items = site.data.timelinejs | where_exp: "item","item.headline" -%}
+{%- assign items = site.data.bltimeline10_3_24b | where_exp: "item","item.headline" -%}
 {
     "title": {
         "media": {

pages/about.md

@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ credits: true
 # Edit the markdown on in this file to describe your collection
 # Look in _includes/feature for options to easily add features to the page
 ---
-{% include feature/jumbotron.html objectid="https://dgobjects.blob.core.windows.net/smalls/grinnell_5768_JPG.jpg" position= "top" %} 
 
- {% include feature/nav-menu.html sections="About Grinnell College's Black Library; About this Collection" %} -->
 
 
 ## About Grinnell College Black Library 
 
-The Black Library is more than a simple speciality section of the library; it’s a result of incredible student activism by Grinnell students, aimed at promoting greater social justice, representation, and equality in the library.  Located on the second floor of Burling Library, the Black Library houses a small portion of scholarship and writings by African and African American scholars. 
+The Black Library is more than a simple speciality section of the library; it’s a result of incredible student activism by Grinnell students, aimed at promoting greater social justice, representation, and equality in the library.  Located on the second floor of Burling Library, the Black Library houses a small portion of scholarship and writings by African and African American scholars available at Burling Library. 
 
 ## About this collection
+This project initially started with the goal to create a poster exhibit near Burling Library’s Black Library to explain its history to patrons of the library. During the creation of the poster exhibit, we discovered that there was a rich vein of archival material that aided in the understand of the events of 1971, and we wanted to make these materials more accessible to alumni, students and others interested in learning about this event. We especially wanted this project to be available for the 50th reunion of the class of 1974, many of whom were involved in the Burling Takeover and oversaw the implementation of CBS’s demands. 
+
+Additionally, the members of the Burling Library were in the process of experimenting with new means of displaying our digital collections. We were interested in testing CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites, for this purpose. The items and metadata we had collected for the physical Black Library exhibit seemed like the perfect material to use for testing this software. Mark McFate, Digital Library Applications Developer, and Libby Cave, Digital Humanities and Instruction Term Librarian, teamed up to create the project. McFate handled much of the information technology infrastructure of the project, while Cave handle the research and exhibit creation. CollectionBuilder proved to be a great match for this project as its static approach allows for long-term sustainability, and it’s many built-in features allows for deeper discoverability and interpretation of the materials. Moreover, the flexibility of the tool allowed for us to create a “People” page, so users, especially those who were directly involved, can see the documents, photos, and other items associated with specific person. 
+The project received significant assistance from the college’s Archives and Special Collections team (Chris Jones and Allison Haack) and Petrouchka Moïse, Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator, who provided invaluable expertise on the historic Black experience at Grinnell College. 
 
-This collection serves three purposes. First, this site aims to share the story of the Black Library and highlight the work of the student activists involved. Second, the website serves as companion to the physical exhibit about the Black Library, located on the East side of the Black Library. The website will allow the visitors of the Black Library to take a deeper dive into the history and materials surronding the Black Library. Third, this website serves as a test of CollectionBuilder and its potential as a tool to create digital collections from Grinnell College's materials, specifically the digitized items found in Digital Grinnell. 
 
-{% include feature/image.html objectid="demo_001" width="75" %} 
 
 

pages/blacklibrary.md

@@ -6,41 +6,63 @@ permalink: /blacklibrary.html
 
 ## Prior calls for the Black library
 The Burling Library Takeover was not the first time CBS requested the creation of the Black Library. In 1968, CBS proposed that Student Government Association (SGA)  provide $400 (adjusted for inflation, the sum would be about $3,600 in 2024) for creating a Black Library as well as a Black student newspaper. 
-{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1727969734" width="50" %}
+
+{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1727969734"%}
+
 This appeal was not accepted at the time, and neither were the other 8 appeals to increase racial justice on campus that CBS put forth.  CBS did not relent on their position and made more attempts to create a Black Library
 
 ## Aftermath of the Takeover
 While the demands from the Takeover were more or less formally approved by campus administration, the fruition of the demands were far slower. At first, the library moved a few volumes of books related to Black Studies to a specific shelf in the Library. This was clearly not what the CBS had in mind, but head librarian, Henry Alden, felt that recataloging and moving the books would be a very expensive and labor-intensive process. Alden was quoted in the February 18th edition of the Scarlet & Black that it would cost $10,000 (adjusted for inflation, the sum would be about $75,310 in 2024) to reorganize and recatalog the existing items that would be appropriate for the Black Library. Lawerence Wright, the CBS president, responded in an interview that such a step would not cost the library anything as CBS members would complete the work. 
 This statement shows that the librarians at  Burling likely were not able to demonstrate to CBS members, as well as other patrons, that the process of creating a new library section requires far more “back-end”, highly-skilled, and unseen workflows than simply moving books from one shelf to another. Even moving a few books would have required a close and manual editing of all the catalogs, assigning new metadata to the book, and documenting the change, which is something that would take at least a few hours if the moved books were not displacing other books. Moving hundreds of volumes from their old locations to a new location that displaced other books would take a librarian several months, if not longer, to properly complete in modern times with digital catalogs. 
-{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600265" width="50" %}
+
+{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600265"%}
+
 ## The Second Takeover and Further Actions
 By February of 1972, CBS was frustrated by the slow process of creating the Black Library, as well as the inaction their other demands. This frustration, mixed with the misunderstanding of the labor required to properly re-catalog books, lead to CBS members to take action again. As Alan Wheat ‘72 stated “The implication we got from all (the meetings) was that there was a manpower shortage … "that they needed some help in the establishment and relocation of this material.” According to the Scarlet & Black published on February 18th, 1972, head librarian Henry Alden tried to tell students that it was  “impossible for inexperienced students to catalog the collection”, and CBS president Lawerence Wright responded with "I hate to overstep his expertise, but we feel that we might be intelligent enough to effectively catalog those holdings”.
 With this mindset, CBS members and Professor Virginius Thornton took over the Twentieth Century Room at 10 pm on Thursday, February 17th. Using the library’s printed bibliographies for “Afro-American and African Studies” books, students went around the library and moved books of interest from their usual locations to the Twentieth Century Room, and removed the existing volumes in the room. 
-{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600262" width="50" %}
+
+{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600262"%}
+
 The demonstration ended when Dean Wally Walker arrived. He informed the students that this action violated “federal laws which forces immediate termination of U.S. Office of Education grants and National Defense Loans to students involved in ‘the seizure of property under the control of an institution of higher education to require or prevent the the availability of certain curriculum or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials or students of such institution from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution” (*Scarlet & Black* 2/18/1972).  Walker told students they must leave in 5 minutes. The students stayed for another 4 minutes and 30 seconds before leaving. 
-{% include feature/image.html objectid="dg_1712600278" %}
+
+{% include feature/image.html objectid="dg_1712600278"%}
+
 This did not deter CBS from further demonstrations. Later that same month, CBS students staged a more subtle demonstration in library. Between the hours of 10 and 11 pm on February 29th, 1972, around 40 students checked out over 800 books relevant to Black studies. Librarian Henry Alden reported to Dean Wally Walker that the students did not violate any library rules in this demonstration, but did keep the library unusually busy
-{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600267" width="50" %}
+
+{% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600267" width="50"%}
 
 ## Moving forward
 In response to CBS’s activism, more concrete measures were taken to address the Black Library’s creation. First, a working group was created within CBS specifically tasked with overseeing the Black Library. Russel McGregor ‘73 was a member of this group and later became the president of CBS. Patricia Swansey ‘74 was also part of this group and communicated with President Legget about the Black Library. 
+
 {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600279" width="50" %}
+
 President Leggett responded to these demonstrations and released a list of recommendations for the Black Library
+
 {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600281" width="50" %}
+
 Mary Gae Wylie, a reference librarian at Burling, was assigned to managing the creation of the Black library. She worked closely with CBS to build the library and expand the collection.  
+
 {% include feature/image.html objectid="grinnell_5768" %}
+
 By the late 1970's, the Black Library became a fully-fledged section of the library in the Twentieth Century Room. Besides housing the library’s Black Studies collection, the area became an event space and hosted guests such as poet George Barlow, who is now a professor at Grinnell College. 
+
 {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="dg_1712600268" width="50" %}
- Black Martyr’s Weekend schedules also started to feature the Black Library as a location for some of its events. 
+
+Black Martyr’s Weekend schedules also started to feature the Black Library as a location for some of its events. 
+
 {% include feature/image.html objectid="dg_1712600272" %}
 
 ## Burling Renovations
 In 1982, Burling underwent a significant renovations. The Twentieth Century Room was removed, and the offices used by College administration were relocated to other buildings on campus. The Black Library found a new home on the second floor of Burling, where it remains today. In the past 40 years, the Black Library remained a space for Black scholarship and events, and even displayed art. 
 
 ## Commemoration
 Over the years, later generations of Grinnell Students commemorated the Takeover of 1971. In 1996, student commemorated the 25 year anniversary of the Takeover with a poetry reading. In 2006, CBS held an event commemorating the1971 takeover of Burling Library. Fifty-five students with candles, representing the fifty-five students who took over Burling in 1971, marched from the Black Culture Center (BCC) to Burling. Once at Burling, the group read the Black Manifesto, enjoyed the Young, Gifted, and Black Gospel Choir’s performance, held a poetry reading, and discussed the ways the Burling Takeover changed Grinnell.
+
 {% include feature/image.html objectid="grinnell_31972" %}
+
 In 2009, students Latona Giwa '09 and Courtney Moore '11 staged a site-specific dance event in and around the Black Library. Performers based their dance on the history of the Black Library and passed out copies of the Black Manifesto.
+
 {% include feature/video.html objectid="grinnell_10398" %}
+
 In 2024, librarians created a poster exhibit about the takeover and the Black library to inform patrons of the library about its history.