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Articles - April - 2016 Issue

South Chicago’s Woodson Library scheduled for long needed structural repairs; Regional Library & Afro-American Harsh Collection will close while improvements made

- by Susan Halas

Vivian Harsh, Chicago's first Afro-American librarian and namesake of the Harsh Collection housed at the Woodson Regional Library on Chicago's South Side. (Photo Chicago Public Library)

Vivian Harsh, Chicago's first Afro-American librarian and namesake of the Harsh Collection housed at the Woodson Regional Library on Chicago's South Side. (Photo Chicago Public Library)

Links and contacts:

Our particular thanks to

Janet Olson manager of the Chicago Area Archivists  list serv for posting our inquiry about the Woodson Library and Harsh Collection and transmitting the response.

j-olson@northwestern.edu

www.chicagoarchivists.org/listserv

www.chicagoarchivists.org



Other contacts for this story:

 

Patrick Molloy

Director of Government & Public Affairs

Chicago Public Library

312-747-4051

pmolloy@chipublib.org

Rodney Freeman rfreeman@chipublib.org

Andrea Telli atelli@chipublib.org

Melvin R. Thompson 

Executive Director - Endeleo Institute (affiliated Trinity Church)

1947 W. 95th St.

Chicago, IL 60643

(773) 966-1590 tel

(773) 779-7674 fax

MRThompson@trinitychicago.org

trinitychicago.org

www.facebook.com/EndeleoInstitute

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