University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and Sunday 2:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
(352) 273-2505
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/
Contact: Dan Reboussin, African Studies curator
Department of Special & Area Studies Collections
Email danrebo@ufl.edu; Office Tel. (352) 273-2642; cell (352) 316-1501
Fifty years ago this week, Dian Fossey founded the Karisoke Research Center to study wild mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, eastern Central Africa. An exhibit opening Monday, September 18th in Smathers Library (East) commemorates the founding of the Center, featuring Fossey and her beloved gorillas in thirty photographs, several of which National Geographic magazine featured in cover stories that propelled the primatologist to international recognition. On view until December 15th, 2017 the exhibit is located in the first-floor lobby of Smathers Library on the University of Florida campus.
Smathers Library holdings include significant research manuscript collections related to the development of wildlife conservation practices in the Twentieth Century. The featured exhibit photographs are from a collection of 15,000 original slides taken by wildlife photographer Bob Campbell and donated to the Libraries in 2015 by his widow Heather Campbell of Nairobi, Kenya. About 2,500 images from Campbell’s work with the mountain gorillas are available online at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/wildlife. Support for the collection and exhibit comes from the UF Center for African Studies and the Dr. Madelyn M. Lockhart Book Fund in African Studies.
The Smathers Library hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. and Sunday 2:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., unless otherwise specified and with occasional exceptions for maintenance. All exhibitions are open to the public and free of charge. An online exhibit launches Friday, September 22, 2017 at http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/BobCampbell
For more information contact: Dan Reboussin, African Studies curator
Department of Special & Area Studies Collections
Email danrebo@ufl.edu; Office Tel. (352) 273-2642; cell (352) 316-1501
