Black History Month--Highlighting Grasselli Library Resources

February is Black History Month and Grasselli Library is highlighting items from its collections. If you need help locating any of the print or online sources or in viewing the streaming videos, contact a reference librarian at x4234.

The Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History presents a vast array of articles, hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of multimedia clips. This guide traces two millennia of Black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in Black History. This Spotlight has biographies on people such as Alvin Ailey, Matthew Henson, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Hank Aaron. In addition, there is a subject browse that allows the user to look up people, places, issues, and events based on topic.

Grasselli Library's African-American Studies Resource Page , compiled and maintained by Grasselli Library librarian Jie Zhang, lists many excellent resources that support study and research on Black history and other topics in African-American studies.

Lastly, OhioLINK's Online Digital Video Collection contains the highly-acclaimed PBS series "Slavery and the making of America," and a number of other films of interest to students of African-American history.

New Library Exhibit Celebrates the 500th Anniversary of Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

A new exhibit in Grasselli Library, celebrates the work of Michelangelo in his magnificent frescoes of The Sistine Chapel. In 1508 Pope Julius II della Rovere commissioned Michelangelo to repaint the ceiling. He worked on the project between 1508 and October 31, 1512, in cramped conditions high on a scaffolding and under continuous pressure from the pope to hurry up. In recent decades, the Sistine Chapel has been carefully cleaned and restored.

Using books and videos available from Grasselli Library, the exhibit shows the beauty of this work and how it has been restored. The exhibit is outside the G.K. Chesterton Room on the upper level of the library near the main staircase.