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HGSC : About the Center : Partnerships Florida Holocaust Museum  In 2007, the University of South Florida and the Florida Holocaust Museum signed a formal affiliation agreement enabling cooperation in a number of areas. Chief among these is a plan to integrate the Museum library into the USF library system as a satellite location. An existing collection of volumes held at the Museum will be catalogued by USF Libraries staff. Access to collections held at the Museum library will be granted to the USF and general community.
The USF – Florida Holocaust Museum collaboration includes synergistic programming that makes use of both institutions’ strengths. Two conferences are planned for 2009. Events at the Florida Holocaust Museum » The USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center has formalized a partnership with UK-based non-governmental organizations Waging Peace, and their sister (aid) agency, Network for Africa. Waging Peace campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights abuses, with a particular focus on Africa. It’s current priority is Darfur, where it is fighting for an immediate end to the atrocities taking place. Darfur GPS Project  To carry out respective but overlapping missions, Waging Peace and the University of South Florida Libraries have engaged in a partnership to document the lives of Africans living in the midst of and recovering from genocide in their region. The partnership includes development of collaborative digital video collections that include images, text, audio, and video, and geographic data (geolocation using GPS).
Using the images, text, and other information collected by Waging Peace and Network for Africa while on field visits to Africa, the USF Libraries Special & Digital Collections Department will create a geospatial web interface to present the material to the public, relating it to the precise geographic location where it was created. Drawings by Darfuri and Chadian Refugee Children  While on a fact-finding mission to eastern Chad in June and July 2007, Waging Peace researcher Anna Schmitt was told by Darfuri refugee women how their children had witnessed horrendous events when their villages were being attacked. This prompted Anna to talk to the children. She gave the children, aged 6 to 18, paper and pencils and asked them what their dreams were for the future and what their strongest memory was.
The resulting drawings have toured the world, to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur. In November 2007, the drawings were accepted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague as contextual evidence of the crimes committed in Darfur and as such they will be used in the trials of the accused, as a graphic illustration of the atrocities. A selection of these drawings were exhibited at the USF Tampa Library in January of 2009. The original 500 drawings comprise a collection to be donated by Waging Peace to the USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center upon completion of exhibitions worldwide. Rebecca Tinsley, founder of Waging Peace and Network for Africa recently spoke at the USF Tampa Library as the USF Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center's 2009 Lecture Series inaugural speaker. Watch the video here » |
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