Come join us on October 4, 2019 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm for the showing
of the documentary Change the Subject followed by a panel discussion.
Our panel includes the directors Jill Baron and Sawyer Broadley and
Isabel Espinal, Humanities Research Services Librarian at UMass Amherst
Libraries. This event is sponsored by the Five Colleges Professional
Development Committee, Mt. Holyoke Libraries, UMass Libraries, Simmons
Graduate School of Information and Science, and EBSCO. Light
refreshments will be served.
Change the Subject tells the story of a group of students at
Dartmouth College, who from their first days at Dartmouth, were
committed to advancing and promoting the rights and dignity of
undocumented people. In partnership with staff at Dartmouth College,
these students – now alumni – produced a film to capture their singular
effort at confronting an instance of anti-immigrant sentiment in their
library catalog. Their advocacy took them all the way from Baker-Berry
Library [1] to the halls of Congress, showing how an instance of campus
activism entered the national spotlight, and how a cataloging term
became a flashpoint in the immigration debate on Capitol Hill. Check out
the Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebphd5Rg6c8&authuser=0