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Fresno State issues report on Madden Library namesake’s racism | Fresno Bee

Fresno State released a report exploring pro-Nazi racism of Henry Madden, the namesake for the school’s library, says he showed no remorse. Outreach planned. read more

Fresno State receives $1.2 million grant to research tobacco usage amongst Latinos - ABC30 News

Thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the University of California Office of the President, the cohort will conduct research on tobacco and nicotine-related control issues. read more

Henry Madden, Fresno State library namesake, expressed ‘clear antisemitic hate,’ school says - The Washington Post

Henry Madden, who was the longtime librarian of Fresno State, expressed his views on Jewish people and Nazi Germany in personal papers that remained sealed for a quarter-century after they were ... read more

Fresno State task force: Henry Madden's name should be removed from library following review of racist writings - ABC30 News

Fresno State's Academic Senate passed a resolution on May 2 for Madden's name to be removed. Their resolutions said despite Madden's contributions to expanding the university's library, his racist ... read more

Fresno State library name to be removed after beliefs of Henry Madden are revealed - Fox News

Fresno State Universities library was named after former librarian, Henry Madden, until Wednesday. A board voted to rename the library after the views of Madden came to light. read more

Fresno State’s Henry Madden Library faces renaming | Fresno Bee

Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval announced in an email to students and faculty on Monday the creation of a renaming task force for the Henry Madden Library after research revealed ... read more

UChicago Library awarded grant to digitize Chicagoland’s historical maps - University of Chicago News

The Chicago History Museum map collection includes maps of Chicago as early as 1812 and maps from Rufus Blanchard, one of the city’s first map publishers. Maps are categorized by topic, such as ... read more

Fresno State University’s Madden Library to be renamed over Nazi sympathies - The Jerusalem Post

The Fresno State library has been named after Henry Madden, who was the university’s librarian from 1949 to 1979, since 1981. read more

Swem Library receives grant to digitize music magazine collection | W&M News Archive - William & Mary

William & Mary’s Swem Library has received a $60,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize its entire run of Cash Box, a music trade magazine published from ... read more

Fresno State will rename library named after Nazi sympathizer

When Madden died in 1982, two years after the board voted to name Fresno State’s library after him, those papers were sealed for 25 years as a condition of his donation, according to the task force. read more

It’s not Madden Library anymore. CSU strips Nazi-sympathizer’s name from Fresno State - AOL

The California State University board of trustees approved removing Henry Madden’s name from Fresno State’s University Library on Wednesday, following the discovery of the late university ... read more

Fresno State considers changing library named after Nazi sympathizer

Fresno State may be renaming Henry Madden Library after senior leadership members were made aware last week that "Madden held deeply anti-Semitic views and Nazi sympathies." President Saúl ... read more