Collections

This collection relates to Libby Werbner who served as a teacher with the Manzanar, California Japanese American Internment Camp during World War II. The collection includes an oral history interview transcripts and original photographs. Werbner describes her experience as a third grade teacher, Japanese culture, life in the camp, Army recruitment and the difference between her experiences at an internment camp and what she heard about concentration camps.

Information pertaining to and about the library, including but not limited to blueprints, brochures, correspondence, events, news articles, pamphlets, plans, posters, reports, and schematic designs. Also includes material from past exhibits held in the Archives and Special Collections Gallery.

Library assessment surveys, responses, and analyses. Undergraduate student surveys, graduate student surveys, and distance learner surveys conducted between 2002 and 2008. 26 CDs with photographs. 4 floppy fisks with library statistics. ARL (Assocation of Research Libraries) publications from 1979 to 2006. Strozier Library Annual Reports from 1980 to 1988. University Libraries Annual Reports from 1989 to 1997.

The Library-In-Action Collection documents the Library-In-Action initiative started by the Broward County Library in 1975 to address literacy and access in underserved communities. The collection also documents the career of Tyrone Bryant from his tenure at the Langston Hughes Library through his directorship at Library-In-Action, as well as the Sistrunk Historical Festival.

The Library of the Spoken Word collection contains 145 audio cassette tapes including lectures, interviews, conferences, literature, articles, and poems on Caribbean and African history and culture from the Library of the Spoken Word project conducted by the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica.

The Lighthouse Point Photograph Collection contains ten 4" x 6" color photographic prints of interiors and exteriors of an historic house. One photograph is of a "Champion Lofty Fig" tree as indicated on verso.

This collection of five boxes of papers represents the academic background of Dr. Lisandro Perez. The collection is a compilation of papers that represent his work as a professor from Louisiana State University and Florida International University. In addition, the collection has papers related to his research studies, the Cuban Research Institute (CRI), Hispanic Faculty Association, the Cuban American Foundation, migration Initiative, as well as articles written by him from Miami Herald.