Telling Stories: One Room at a Time

Introduction - What Are Story Rooms?

The Leatherby Libraries has twenty-one group and multimedia study rooms, also known, in some instances, as story rooms. This name stems from the fact that some of these rooms tell a story. Sometimes that story is about a particular person who is being celebrated, like a beloved faculty mentor, and sometimes that story is about a community or particular historical event. These stories are told through the collection of artifacts in the rooms, including any art displayed on the walls, explanatory text on plaques, or book collections displayed in a given room.

The library is the heart of any college campus, a gathering place, and a cultural hub. The goal of the story rooms has always been two-fold: to provide students with meaningful, interesting spaces to study together, and to collaborate with our generous donors to tell important stories, inspiring students by giving them an opportunity to learn something new.

Like everything else we do at the Leatherby Libraries, the story rooms have the success of Chapman University students at their heart. The rooms offer students beautiful places to study individually or in groups and at the same time offer them opportunities for engagement, and exposure to cultures and histories that may be new to them. We see the story rooms as an organic means of enhancing their learning and discovery.

Join us as we explore six of the story rooms that are the most dynamic and emblematic of diversity in the Leatherby Libraries - the Virginia G. Carson, Ph.D. Group Study Room, the Sikhs and Sikhism in America Study Room, the Mendez v. Westminster Group Study Room, the Italian Heritage Archive Study Room, the Henri Temianka Archives Multimedia Room, and the Frederic J. Kakis, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Group Study Room.

Curators:
Dr. Rachel Karas, Leatherby Libraries Events and External Relations Assistant
Essraa Nawar, Leatherby Libraries Development Coordinator

Editorial Help:
Dr. Kevin Ross
Rand Boyd
Jimmy Elinski
Dr. Wendy Gonaver
Taylor Greene
Dr. Richard Pitts '70
Bicky Singh, Founder, Sikhlens, and member of the Chapman University Board of Governors
Annie Tang
Dr. Daniel Temianka

Technical Help:
Jessica Bocinski
Dr. Curtis Fletcher, USC
Andy Harman
Kristin Laughtin-Dunker
Dr. Jana Remy
Dr. Lindsay Shen
Brian Song

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