October 22-26, 2012
As part of Archives Week 2012, "Journeys to Justice: Civil Rights in North
Carolina," NCSU Libraries' Special Collection Research Center will host an
exhibition featuring materials included in the TRLN collaborative digitization
project focused on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. The
exhibition will focus on Cooperative Extension and Demonstration outreach to
African-American communities in the state. Such efforts were administerd by NC
State, as a land-grant university, from the 1910s and on. The exhibition will be
on display October 22-26. Please direction questions to Jennifer Baker
(jlbaker2@ncsu.edu) or Brian Dietz (bjdietz@ncsu.edu).
October 23, 2012
12:00-1:00
Location: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library,
Pleasant's Room
Directions
Brown bag lunch discussion on "Twentieth Century North Carolina Civil Rights
in the Archives: Materials in the Reading Room and Online." Please bring your
own lunch, but coffee and pastries will be included.
While many people believe that archives' main holdings are from centuries
past, numerous collections from Wilson Library's Southern Historical Collection
feature unique materials from the 20th Century, including many fascinating
materials related to North Carolina's Civil Rights Movement and local struggles
for racial, economic, social, and environmental justice. Digital projects create
a rich archival world outside the confines of the physical reading room. The
Triangle Research Library Network's LSTA-funded grant "Content, Context, and
Capacity: A Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil
Rights Movement in North Carolina" gives researchers free online access to
dozens of digitized 20th century civil-rights era collections from NC State
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Central University, and Duke University.
Sponsors: The Southern Historical Collection and
the Triangle Research Libraries Network digitization grant "Content, Context,
and Capacity."
October 25, 2012
11:35-12:50
Location: North Carolina Central University,
Shepard Library, Room 140 (first floor)
Directions
Brown bag lunch discussion on "Archives and Digital Access:
exploring how materials are put online and how researchers use digital objects."
Please feel free to bring your own lunch, but coffee and pastries will be
included.
Online digital projects offer a vast amount of opportunities for historical
research, especially when looking at local struggles for racial, economic,
social, and environmental justice within the North Carolina Civil Rights
movements. In this North Carolina Central University Archives Week event, we
will discuss how various librarians and archivists are making large-scale
digitization materials accessible along with how digital materials are being
used by historians.
Samantha Leonard, the Digital Production Manager of the Triangle Research
Library Network's LSTA-funded grant "Content, Context, and Capacity: A
Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement
in North Carolina" will speak about how the grant makes archival materials from
NC State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North
Carolina Central University, and Duke University available online. North
Carolina Central University Professor Jerry B. Gershenhorn, author of Melville
J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (2004), will speak about his
research experiences as a professor and historian using digital projects.
Sponsors: North Carolina Central University and the TRLN LSTA grant "Content,
Context, and Capacity." |