1. Diane Sybeldon Arts and Media Librarian Wayne State University MACAA Conference Detroit, MI October 4, 2012 Still from “Images from Detroit’s Cass Corridor by Kathryn Brackett Luchs and Shaun Bangert

2. Detroit Institute of Arts: Kick out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977 (1980) Selections from the Alternative Press Archive, appeared in “Time and Place: Art of Detroit’s Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection” at WSU’s Elaine Jacob Gallery in 2009 Up from the Streets: Detroit Art from the Duffy Warehouse Collection On film: ~ ‘ Works in Progress: Images’ from Detroit’s Cass Corridor’ ~ ‘Paintings and Pipe Fittings’ Cass Corridor art images from the University Art Collection are available in the Visual Resources Collection databaseVisual Resources Collection

3. Print Collections: Alternative Press Collection Archive African American Literature Special Collection Dudley Randall Collection Naomi Long Madgett Collection etc. Local Poetry Collection Broadside Press Alternative Press Detroit Artists Workshop Press Lotus Press Red Hanrahan Press Detroit River Press Past Tents Press Doorjamb Press etc. Digital Collection: “Writing the River” digital poetry collection

4. OPENING– Saturday, December 4, 5-9 pm Sharing: Library as Collections Space “Cass Corridor Culture: In and Around Wayne State, 1960s - 1980s”

5. Sharing: Detroit Poetry Selections on a “poetry wall”

6. Grande Ballroom postcards

7. In the library and in an online Library Guide

8. for teaching and learning

9. ~Grace Lee Boggs ~Melba Joyce Boyd ~Broadside Press Executive ~Robin Eichele ~Bill Harris ~Barton Lessin ~M.L. Liebler ~Cary Loren ~Naomi Long Madgett ~Glen Mannisto ~Ken Mikolowski ~Christine Monhollen ~Frank Rashid ~James Semark ~John Sinclair ~Leni Sinclair ~Dennis Teichman ~George and Chris Tysh ~Don and Hilda Vest Collecting Detroit Arts Culture: Monika Berenyi’s “Detroit City Poets” Interviews

10. Art Alan Schaerges Dennis Nawrocki Kathryn Brackett Luchs Jim Chatelain Marsha Miro Mary Ann Wilkinson Mary Preston Nancy Mitchnick Robert Sestok Susanne Hilberry John Egner Gilda Snowden Music Bud Spangler David A. Carson Peter Werbe Russ Gibb Stephen Goodfellow Wendell Harrison Gary Grimshaw Robin Sommers Rebecca Derminer Ron English Charles Moore Brenda Goodman Mary Jane Jacob Aris Koutroulis Robert Cobb Joy Hakanson Colby Robert Wilbert David Zucca

11. The Library Catalog centralizes access SEARCH: Detroit City Poets or Cass Corridor Documentation Project www.lib.wayne.edu www.lib.wayne.edu Mitchnick Spangler

12. Main Partners: ~Library System: Diane Sybeldon, Arts and Media Librarian ~University Art Collection: Sandra Schemske, University Art Collection Coordinator ~School of Library and Information Science (SLIS): Professor Joe Turrini, Coordinator of Archival Administration Program, and Oral History faculty ~Monika Berenyi, Canadian researcher and documentarian And many contributors and participants: ~Professor Joan Beaudoin, SLIS Digital Libraries faculty ~Library System staff: Metadata librarian, catalogers, digital projects librarians, graduate student assistants ~Department of Art and Art History: Visual Resources Collection staff ~English Department poetry faculty: Todd Duncan and M.L. Liebler ~29 SLIS Graduate student interviewers ~Over 50 Art, Poetry and Music interviewees ~The local arts community