{"id":872,"date":"2020-01-30T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=872"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:00:00","slug":"busy-times-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2020\/01\/30\/busy-times-in-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"busy times in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/academics\/dept\/history\/people\/profile.html?person=ratchford_jamal_lamont\">Jamal Ratchford<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Dr. J.&#8221; to his students) has invited-slash-required his classes to visit the Archives to research race and racism at Colorado College.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always exciting to have a room full of students working on related topics, and I particularly enjoy witnessing the way the students in these classes help each other find resources and talk about them. In Block 3 of this school year, November 2019, 23 students in &#8220;Introduction to the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity&#8221; were in and out of our reading room almost every day, and at the end of the block we had a TON of reshelving to do, so much that I snapped a photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/01\/Dr-J-class-materials-November-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-873 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/01\/Dr-J-class-materials-November-2019-e1580342395192-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/01\/Dr-J-class-materials-November-2019-e1580342395192-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/01\/Dr-J-class-materials-November-2019-e1580342395192-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/01\/Dr-J-class-materials-November-2019-e1580342395192.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, what I really SHOULD have done is capture a photo of the STUDENTS, but my staff and I were so busy helping them that I never thought to do it!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: Dr. J provided two photos:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-b.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-b-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-a.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2021\/03\/Ratchford-class-2020-a-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in 2015,\u00a0Jamal Ratchford\u00a0(&#8220;Dr. J.&#8221; 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