Friday, November 21, 2008

Southwest Asia Online

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that the online portion of our Southwest Asia Exhibit is now up and running! On this site, you can check out recommended books and films that we selected from our library catalogs, as well as watch the original video feeds from each of our five interviews with students from the region.You can check everything out here:

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/diversityfellows/southwestasia

Let us know what you think!
Alise

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Southwest Asia Exhibit

Despite graphs and fact boxes constantly unsticking and falling due to the humidity and changing temperatures outside, Sindhu and I can finally call our second exhibit a success. We have made a goal to raise the bar at least a little bit with every exhibit, and I truly believe we accomplished that. Instead of just tackling one country, we tackled nineteen--making up the region we referred to as Southwest Asia.
We gave brief demographics and interesting information about fifteen of the countries and then focused in on the remaining four: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel and Iran. One of our own librarians, May Jafari, is from Iran and generously offered to loan us artifacts from her home country for the display. We also received artifacts from Sindhu, Robert Harris and Kathleen Hanna. Also included in the display were sections on science, religion, student interviews and a timeline. We tried to have as many pictures as possible, and even had a photo collage at the top of the first display case.
Currently the fellows are working on developing our accompanying website for the Southwest Asia exhibit, on which we are hoping to place lists of movies to watch and books to read concerning the region. We will also be uploading the video feeds from each of our five interviews.
We hope any of you who have not yet come to see the display, do so and give us your feedback. We are always looking for new ideas for our future projects.
Alise