n a while now, hasn't it?? Vacation around Thanksgiving and then December general craziness. But, now the students are back and things are settling into a busy term. The biggest deal occurrence for the Archives this winter break was the digitization of the student newspaper. This is a project I really never expected to see happen, but it did! Planning for the College's 150th anniversary is happening now and the coordinator for the celebration saw the Chronicle digitization project as a crucial part of the preparations for the celebration of our long history.We selected ArcaSearch as our vendor for this project for a variety of reasons and I cannot be happier with the job they did. It's an unbelievably useful resource for me and I anticipate many researchers using it in the future. For the first time ever, the student newspaper is keyword searchable (no index had existed previously) and it's available whenever, wherever with computer access. I'm still trying to figure out how to really get the word out there, but tomorrow I meet with the Capstone History class (our original research/historiography class for majors). If you're interested in taking a look, just head to https://www.arcasearch.com/us/nc/
I'll update in the next little while with other events & new accessions that happened this December.
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