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Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: News
Officials at the James E. Walker Library at MTSU are embarking on a program to convert the heirlooms of the university's storied past into accessible digital images in preparation for the school's centennial in 2011 and beyond.
The librarians and students who will work on the MTSU Memory Project seek to collect photographs, correspondence, memorabilia and other items from the campus community and the community at large.
"I think our first priority will be the lower-hanging fruit, the photographs, documents," said Ken Middleton, associate professor at the Walker Library. "But I'm hoping as the centennial comes closer that we can include some audio from oral history interviews, for instance, and I'm hoping that some video, some old home movies, will come up from private collections."
Key categories of special interest to the archivists include the founding of the institution, World War I, women's suffrage, the Great Depression and the New Deal era, World War II and the G.I. Bill, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and women's issues, including Title IX, the June Anderson Women's Center and the Women's Studies Program.
The Memory Project is an outgrowth of the statewide Volunteer Voices Project, a consortial endeavor supported by a $1.8 million grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
With a $5,000 allocation from the MTSU Foundation, project managers will pay a graduate assistant to be a liaison to the campus for the solicitation of materials.
"We are devoting a small percentage of each of four librarians' time to the project, … and we will also be diverting a little bit of student worker funds to have some additional student help," says Mayo Taylor, Team Leader for Access Services at the library.
The point person on all things cyberspace will be Fagdéba Bakoyéma, whose experience setting up digital libraries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and work as a digital imaging specialist with the Indiana University Digital Library Program will serve the project well.
The librarians and students who will work on the MTSU Memory Project seek to collect photographs, correspondence, memorabilia and other items from the campus community and the community at large.
"I think our first priority will be the lower-hanging fruit, the photographs, documents," said Ken Middleton, associate professor at the Walker Library. "But I'm hoping as the centennial comes closer that we can include some audio from oral history interviews, for instance, and I'm hoping that some video, some old home movies, will come up from private collections."
Key categories of special interest to the archivists include the founding of the institution, World War I, women's suffrage, the Great Depression and the New Deal era, World War II and the G.I. Bill, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and women's issues, including Title IX, the June Anderson Women's Center and the Women's Studies Program.
The Memory Project is an outgrowth of the statewide Volunteer Voices Project, a consortial endeavor supported by a $1.8 million grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
With a $5,000 allocation from the MTSU Foundation, project managers will pay a graduate assistant to be a liaison to the campus for the solicitation of materials.
"We are devoting a small percentage of each of four librarians' time to the project, … and we will also be diverting a little bit of student worker funds to have some additional student help," says Mayo Taylor, Team Leader for Access Services at the library.
The point person on all things cyberspace will be Fagdéba Bakoyéma, whose experience setting up digital libraries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and work as a digital imaging specialist with the Indiana University Digital Library Program will serve the project well.
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