Baby Boomer exhibit now open in Smathers Library

June 17, 2008

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Jim Liversidge Collection, a walk through “Baby Boom” pop culture history, is now open in the second floor gallery of Smathers Library (East) from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. “The Passing Parade: A Baby Boomer Collects” touches upon highlights from politics, television, theatre, film, music, sports, and day-to-day current events of the past 50 years.

The collection — compiled, processed and donated to the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections by Jim Liversidge, curator of Popular Culture Collections at the University of Florida, is made up of close to seven thousand individual pieces (autographs, scrapbooks, photos, programs, posters, campaign buttons, sheet music, newspaper clippings, audio recordings, VHS and DVD films, artifacts and over 400 book titles). The material is housed in 95 archival boxes (101 linear feet) representing 45 years of collecting from JFK and Vietnam to 9-11 and the current election year.

The exhibit runs through August 22.