World AIDS Day Exhibit

In honor of World AIDS Day, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies created a special one day exhibit on December 1, highlighting portions of the Library's collections focused on AIDS awareness and prevention.

Included in the exhibit were works of art, commemorative cloth, pamphlets, booklets, t-shirts and posters, all examples of how awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS are treated in Southern Africa today.

The two posters on display were taken from a group of about 200 posters currently being digitized in a cooperative project involving staff of the Catalog and Preservation Departments, DMS, and Africana.

If you were unable to visit Africana on December 1, consider a look at our web page, "Communities Uniting to Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa; Materials from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies" at www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/aidsexhibit/index.html and the UN AIDS World AIDS Day web page at www.unaids.org

David L. Easterbrook
George and Mary LeCron Foster Curator
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies

(Photos by Catherine Wirth)