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Announcing the Cross-Campus Network for Digital Projects

Posted by on Friday, November 29, 2019 in DH Center Blog, News.

The Mellon Partners for Humanities Education are excited to announce the Cross-Campus Network for Digital Projects.  This project recently recieved a grant to support pilot digitization projects at
each Mellon Partners campus. These projects will highlight special archival collections from each campus and build on new digital infrastructure recently implemented across the Mellon Partners network. These new digital projects will assist faculty outreach efforts by archivists and librarians on all campuses by demonstrating the great potential of digital archives for innovative research and teaching. Each campus will host a public showcase of completed projects in 2020.

Collections:
Berea College pilot collection: The Phil Primack Collection
Fisk University pilot collection: The Lorenzo Dow Turner Collection
Tennessee State University pilot collection: The Agriculture/1890 Land Grant Collection
Tougaloo College pilot collection: the Tougaloo Lawyers Commission Project.

Project partners:
Tony Bounds, College Archivist, Tougaloo College
Madeleine Casad, Executive Director, Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University,
project lead
Daniel Genkins, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University
DeLisa Minor Harris, Reference Librarian for Special Collections, Fisk University
L. Abby Houston, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Berea College
Lori Myers-Steele, Collections Archivist, Berea College
Sharon Hull Smith, Special Collections Librarian, Tennessee State University
Susan Springer, Director of Library Services, Tougaloo College
Sarah Swanz, Librarian for Digital Media and Publishing, Vanderbilt University
Stefanie Taylor, Assistant Librarian, Tougaloo College
Andrew Wesolek, Director, Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications at VU Library,
Vanderbilt University