Academic library history timeline (Group 9) by https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii 1. Click + to add a topic in the correct place on the timeline. 2. Enter the year in the Subject field. 3. Enter text, images, urls, etc. 4. Choose a red background for examples that perpetuate white supremacy culture, green for those that resist it, and yellow if you're not sure. en-us 2021-11-11 14:44:23 UTC 2026-03-12 14:04:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3db.png 1636 vconnell https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1884361322 HARVARD UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED


The first university in the new world was established by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.




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The Supreme Court upholds that "separate is not equal." This landmark legislation paved the way for the desegregation of schools at all levels.

]]> 2021-11-11 14:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1884361325 2021 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887261073 Library of Congress updates subject headings “Aliens” and “Illegal aliens" with new subject headings “Noncitizens” and “Illegal immigration"]]> 2021-11-12 18:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887261073 1960s https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887264231 Some libraries in U.S. are still segregated -- white only.]]> 2021-11-12 18:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887264231 1876 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887266691 Dewey Decimal system established]]> 2021-11-12 18:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887266691 2021 bobbybothmann https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887268684 Library of Congress addresses structural racism in the LC Classification for the use of Elements of the population Cutters changing N for Negro to B for Blacks/African Americans ]]> 2021-11-12 18:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887268684 1879 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887268995
Federal government Indian Office develops day and boarding schools, including Carlisle which opened in 1879. The director stated "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man"]]> 2021-11-12 18:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887268995 1819 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887271129 Congress passes the Indian Civilization Act - creating mission schools]]> 2021-11-12 18:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887271129 1971 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887271732 Sandy Berman publishes Prejudices and antipathies: a tract on the LC subject heads...]]> 2021-11-12 18:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887271732 February 24, 2020 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887273959 Tracie D. Hall appointed Executive Director of American Library Association. The first female African-American executive director in ALA history and author of the book chapter "The Black Body at the Reference Desk: Critical Race Theory and Black Librarianship"]]> 2021-11-12 18:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887273959 1860s and ongoing United States funds land-grant universities with expropriated Indigenous land. https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887274404 2021-11-12 18:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887274404 1969 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887274962 The first Department of Ethnic Studies created at Berkeley following student led protests.]]> 2021-11-12 18:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887274962 2015 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887275058 Black Archives was founded by Renata Cherlise as a “multimedia platform that spotlights the Black experience.”]]> 2021-11-12 18:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887275058 1996 Power to Name / Hope A. Olson bobbybothmann https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887276605 Hope Olson's doctoral dissertation, later published as The Power to Name, has become a seminal work in information science that explains how classification systems are culturally biased and not neutral. ]]> 2021-11-12 18:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887276605 1979 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887279222 American Indian Library Association founded in conjunction with the White House Pre-Conference on Indian Library and Information Services on or near Reservations. At the time, there was increasing awareness that library services for Native Americans were inadequate. Individuals as well as the government began to organize to remedy the situation.]]> 2021-11-12 18:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887279222 Transgender Archives - University of Victoria opened https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887283174 2021-11-12 18:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887283174 1997 Homosaurus bobbybothmann https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887283837 The Homosaurus was originally created in 1997 by IHLIA LGBT Heritage as a Dutch and English gay and lesbian thesaurus that was used as a standalone vocabulary to describe their collections.]]> 2021-11-12 18:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887283837 1976 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887284628
ALA saw its first African-American president. Clara Stanton Jones was elected president that year.


"Jones’s 26-year career at DPL [Detroit Public Library] culminated in a promotion to the directorship in 1970, where she served until her retirement in 1978. A renowned mentor to young professionals, Jones was ALA’s first African-American president, serving from 1976 to 1977.

]]> 2021-11-12 18:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887284628 1939 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887284847 Five Black library goers are arrested in Alexandria, Virginia because they were “disturbing the peace” by quietly reading in the new library, a whites-only branch.]]> 2021-11-12 18:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887284847 2006 Black Metropolis Research Consortium started https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286572 2021-11-12 18:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286572 1921 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286686
Thomas Fountain Blue was the first African-American to head a public library system. In 1921, he became the first African-American to speak at an ALA program.



]]> 2021-11-12 18:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286686 2018 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286818 ALA interprets that the Library Bill of Rights protects hate speech and use of public spaces regardless of a group's beliefs]]> 2021-11-12 18:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887286818 1970 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887288061 Black Caucus of the ALA is established]]> 2021-11-12 18:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887288061 1921-1923 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887288296
The first ALA round table met to encourage library patron diversity, " ALA's Work with Negroes Round Table". The round table was began to examine the state of equitable access to library materials for African-Americans.  The round table continued for  two years before being disbanded. Tensions flared between librarians in the north and the south causing the ALA to suspend the round table.

]]> 2021-11-12 18:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887288296 2017 Black Lesbian Archives founded https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887290510 2021-11-12 18:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887290510 1837 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887290713 Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest HBCU, is founded]]> 2021-11-12 18:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887290713 2015 CCQ Indigenous Knowledge Organization v. 53, nos. 5/6 bobbybothmann https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887291432 Special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly devoted to indigenous knowledge systems, including classification and vocabularies. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wccq20/53/5-6]]> 2021-11-12 18:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887291432 2007 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887293525 Loriene Roy, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, was the first Native American president of the American Library Association when she was inaugurated in 2007.]]> 2021-11-12 18:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887293525 2019 https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887299807 April Hathcock verbally attacked at ALA Midwinter forum]]> 2021-11-12 18:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vconnell/g8skw5il0kncx4ii/wish/1887299807