After almost a full year of scanning, photoshopping, transcribing, and describing, I am happy to announce that we are re-launching our Digital Collections featuring some of the old favorites and some exciting, new content. Many thanks to Theresa for providing support in equipment and hosting fees, to Anna and Lisa for sending Special Collections great student assistants, to Brian for bringing the interface in line with the rest of the UTC website, and to Mike, Steve, and Katie for providing administrative support for this effort.
In addition to the John T. Wilder, Emma Bell Miles, and Holiness Churches content, we’ve been able to publish the first 30 volumes of the Moccasin yearbooks, Leroy Sullivan’s correspondence and diaries authored while he was a soldier deployed with the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII, correspondence from the Fugitive Writers explaining their individual interpretations of the Southern Agrarian movement, and the first half of the Penelope Johnson Allen’s research files and original documents related to the history and preservation of Brainerd Mission. All collections are full-text searchable, thanks, in large part, to hundreds of manually entered transcripts authored by our stellar students assistants.
These collections may be accessed from the UTC Digital Collections entry in the A-Z list of the Databases tab of the the Search Library Resources box on our homepage. In the future, digital collections will also be searchable in WorldCat Local, however, there’s a validation error bug in OCLC’s harvesting service preventing the metadata crosswalk and harvest at this time. OCLC is not able to provide a timeline to fix this bug. In the meantime, just be aware that these collections are available and ready for our faculty and students.
As always, if you have an idea for a new digital collection, don’t hesitate to drop me a line. I’d be happy to collaborate with you, faculty, or student groups to build curriculum-focused content.