Exhibits and Events

This digital archive of Asian Library highlights is created and maintained by the Asian Library, a department of the Special Collections & Archives at The Claremont Colleges Library.  The site currently contains three exhibits:

• East Asian Printing Cultures
• Korean Rare Books at The Claremont Colleges Library
• Text and Image: East Asian Rare Books and Art Works at The Claremont Colleges

Interpretations of Shakespeare, or, What You Will is based on exhibits on display in The Claremont Colleges Library and Denison Library during Spring 2016 for The Claremont Colleges’ celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy 400 years after his death. Curated by three Pomona College students: Emma Fredgant (2017), an English major; Alana Friedman (2016), an English major; and Pieter Hoekstra (2017), a Religious Studies major, as part of their SURP/CCEPS Fellowship during Summer 2015, the students explored primary and secondary sources to discover their own approaches to Shakespeare in order to create exhibits commemorating Shakespeare’s legacy.

Navigating Culture: Islam and Encounter in the Indian Ocean World, a Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections exhibit reflects the movement of people, culture, and ideas between Africa and Asia via passage through the Indian Ocean, spanning the 7th to 19th centuries. The online exhibit is based on a gallery space exhibit curated by Pomona College students Anisha Bhat (2015) and Ana Kramer (2016), along with Ayat Agah and Gale Burrow, from Special Collections. Dr. Arash Khazeni from the Pomona College History department was instrumental in this collaboration.

Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts was curated by Claremont McKenna College student, Lindsey Betts (2016) as part of her CCEPS Fellowship in Fall 2015. A Literature major, Lindsey’s project was to gather and present a variety of 17th and 18th century science literature existing within Special Collections.

Explore samples from the Los Angeles-based archival collections held by The Claremont Colleges Library’s Special Collections, the Ella Strong Denison Library on the Scripps College campus, the Bates and Harvey Mudd Aeronautics Heritage Library on the Harvey Mudd campus, and the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.  For more information about the collections in this video, please visit: https://7clib.cc/LAAS-TCC.