Guy-Clement discusses access, exhibitions, and funding needs
Guy-Clement explains that CBH provides access through the Othmer Library, public programs, and off-site exhibitions. She notes that CBH lacks dedicated city operating funding and has absorbed $2.6 million in operating costs.
And speaking of belonging in the archives, we are about to launch a call for community donated yearbooks to add to our collection.
So if any of the esteemed Brooklyn members of the committee are interested in donating theirs,
Please let me know.
Our collections are exceptionally rich, but we also know they do not yet represent every Brooklyn community equally.
Collecting today's Brooklyn and filling silences in the historical record is part of the work.
Access to these collections take many forms.
Researchers can work directly with our original materials in the Othmer Library,
but the Center for Brooklyn History also brings Brooklyn history to people through public programs, education initiatives, exhibitions, and digital resources.
Increasingly, that work happens across Brooklyn.
Through cross-borough genealogy workshops focused on using our digital collections, branch-based projects, and off-site exhibitions such as Memories Matter at the Euclid Avenue subway station.
We are bringing materials and stories from the collection into neighborhoods across the borough.
We're also excited to continue to share our collections through storytelling, and we are currently in the midst of planning two new exhibitions,
one which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in New York State, and another, Mapping Puerto Rican Brooklyn, which looks at the lives and the history of Puerto Ricans in the borough.