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Pop-up exhibit honors Augusta Baker’s legacy [USC College of Information and Communications]

A wonderful way to bring awareness to a pioneer of librarianship! Check out the news story about the pop-up exhibit by Dr. Nicole Cooke to honor Augusta Baker:

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/library_and_information_science/news/2024/augusta_baker_popup_exhibit.php

Dr. Cooke notes that Augusta Baker “broke a lot of barriers, she was a groundbreaking Black librarian at the New York Public Library, she was a social justice activist, an author, and later a storyteller in residence at the School of Information Science” at the University of South Carolina.

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