The Daily Bulletin Archive

Musa Abdul Hakim, associate librarian, E. H. Butler Library, was among Africana librarians from Columbia, Duke, Princeton, the University of Wisconsin, and the Library of Congress who attended a meeting on the Aluka Digital Library in New York City on March 28. The purpose of the consultative meeting was to gather feedback on the content that is currently available in the Aluka Digital Library, identify priority areas for additional content, think together about how best to make this growing resource available to scholars in the higher education community, and discuss recent updates to Aluka.

Hakim presented an exhibit, lecture, film, and slide show in two presentations titled “Rescuing Those Magnificent Endangered Desert Edge Libraries of Timbuktu and Beyond: Three Contemporary Explorers” at the International Institute of Buffalo on March 22 and 29.

An exhibit by Hakim, “Breaking the Silences on the Holocaust of Slavery: Remembering the Multiple Legacies of Enslavement and Trade in Africa’s Human Population,” was on display in Butler Library during February, and at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library during March. A reception and lecture for the exhibit was held at Merriweather on March 24. The exhibit was featured as the lead story in the Buffalo Challenger on March 12.