Come to the Special Collections Research Center to take in two sister exhibitions now through May 17. Both exhibitions explore social justice in action.

"Words Matter! The Inclusive Cataloging Movement Takes Flight," expands upon the Critical Cataloging movement and its significance for the Fresno State Library in particular, highlighting injustices in the knowledge organizational systems of libraries and why we need inclusive cataloging practices to counter racism, antisemitism, and other limitations built into how we search and find information.

The companion exhibition is a textile art exhibition showcasing works produced by catalog librarians and metadata specialists in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, titled "Unseen Labor: An International Library Community Organizing Embroidery Project and Exhibit about Metadata, Our Stories, and Our Service." First envisioned by Ann Kardos (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this is a traveling exhibit that is being hosted at Fresno State. More information can be found here.

Special Collections will be hosting several sponsored events during the course of these two exhibitions such as zine making workshops, Zoom panel discussions, a cross stitch activity, magnetic poetry for public poetry, providing catalog cards for public art activities, and supplying crossword puzzles and coloring pages.

Further information will be available on our Special Collections Research Center website. For more information, call 559.278.2589 or email scrc@mail.fresnostate.edu or jumoore@csufresno.edu.