September
16, 2008
Oakton Community College Library Receives Grant
Oakton Community College is the recipient of a $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), College officials said.
The grant, obtained by Dean of Library and Media Services Gary Newhouse and Don Jacobson, adjunct history instructor, will fund the six-week exhibition John Adams Unbound, which will be displayed at Oakton’s Des Plaines campus. Oakton is one of just 20 libraries nationwide selected to host John Adams Unbound. The exhibition and related programs will be free and open to the public. Exhibition dates will be announced by the NEH later this year.
This exhibition focuses on how the nation’s second president shaped American history and formed his intellectual and political ideas from a personal collection of more than 3,000 books. The program also features at least two lectures or discussions by a qualified scholar.
John Adams Unbound is a collaboration between the NEH, Boston Public Library, and the American Library Association. The traveling display is based on a major exhibition that was presented 2006-07 in the galleries of the Boston Public Library.
For more information, contact Gary Newhouse at 847-635-1640 or garyn@oakton.edu.
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