Object Details
Names
Anacostia Museum
Washington, D.C.. Public Library
Tscherny, Elena
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Citation
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
Elena Tscherny spoke about the Office of Library Services and Programs, her career with and work for the District of Columbia Public Library, services and events that the DC Public Library offers the Spanish speaking community, artist exhibitions, bilingual librarians and staff, and the Mt. Pleasant library. She also explained how she would be able to help with Anacostia Museum's Latino exhibit; her involvement with and thoughts about community organizations and DC government's Office of Latino Affairs; how DC government budget cuts affect the DC Public Library; and ideas for documenting the Latino community.
Elena Tscherny was interviewed at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library in Washington, DC. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include very loud white noise and static, and very background noise, including voices and a vacuum, at the beginning of the interview; interviewee's voice can be difficult to hear at times.
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General
Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Topic
Librarians
Hispanic American librarians
Women
Women librarians
Hispanic Americans
Latin Americans
Public libraries
Interviews
See more items in
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF). A number of oral history interviews in this collection were digitized and catalogued in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Extent
2 Digital files
1 Sound cassette
Date
circa 1992-1993
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Type
Archival materials
Digital files
Sound cassettes
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Note
The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 35 minutes.
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.03-027_ref1892
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ACMA.03-027
ACMA
Record ID
ebl-1712088000981-1712088003356-0