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Attendees: Joanna Gadsby, Susan Graham, Emily Hauver, Jodi Hoover, Lindsey Loeper

Available Library exhibit spaces:

1. Gallery
   1. Contact: Emily and Tom
   2. Shows 2 x per semester
2. Reference book display
   1. Contact: Joanna
   2. One shelf outside the Reference offices, one display per month
3. Media display cases
   1. Contact: Jodi
   2. One display case rotates every month, the second every semester
4. Special Collections Reading Room
   1. Contact: Susan
   2. Seven cases rotate on an as needed basis
5. Reference cultural display
   1. Contact: Gergana
   2. 1 case rotates each semester
6. Rotunda
   1. Contact: Tom
   2. Five cases rotate on an as needed basis (several times per semester)
7. Omeka.net
   1. http://umbcarchives.omeka.net/

Gallery shows brainstorming:

• "Persian Visions"
  • Opens January 28 through the end of March
  • Exhibit event will be held Tuesday Feb 19
  • Proposed month for supplementary exhibits: February
  • Special Collections will showcase items from the book and photography collections with Iranian creators or with Iran as the main topic
  • Media and Reference will showcase works by Iranian authors/film makers or on the topic of Iran
  • Emily will provide mailers for the displays and will send Reference a poster to display
  • Mark Durant has an undergraduate student that may be interested and willing in providing summaries or reviews of Iranian films (Media)
• Baltimore Sun photographs
  • Topics could include: photojournalism; the Sun; newspapers in general; Baltimore Sun "alumni" works (David Simon, KAL); maybe alumni of UMBC that have connections to the Sun
  • Exhibit will be sponsored in part by the Sun in celebration of their 175th anniversary

Other possible exhibit topics:

• Solidarity posters
  • From the Polish revolution
  • Artwork, history, and design elements for examination
  • Collection is being processed by a graduate student and Gergana has assisted with interpretation (language, cultural)
• Preservation Week
  • April 21-27, 2013
  • http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk
  • Display could show physical damage that items can get from exhibitions
  • Showcase obsolete media (Betamax)
• Faculty authors event
  • May?
  • Supplemental exhibit topics could be campus authors, film makers, book makers, artists, photographers
• Ted Serios film digitization
  • Show the journey of the Serios films as they travel to Austria for digitization
  • Screen the films
  • Maybe tie in to posting of Eisenbud coll in Digital Collections? Also Omeka exhibit.
• Contact campus departments for partnerships - like Women's Center or Geography partnerships from 2012
• Contact profs teaching exhibits/museum studies focused classes: Richard Mason (ANCS), Preminda Jacob (ART)