Archivist preserves college treasure
Katherine Poythress
Issue date: 9/13/07 Section: News
She estimated the cost to digitize the documents is about $1 per image, since it has to be done through a third party company.
Also available on the Web site are the Alwin C. Carus coin collection and the Civil War diary of a man named Thomas Kimball. Kimball was Hillsdale student in 1861, but left to join the army. He was then captured and imprisoned. and later died in prisoner-of-war camp in South Carolina. Moore said the next addition to the Web site will be a series of letters written to Kimball while he was imprisoned.
The most recent digital collection Moore has been working on is an archive of Collegian issues, which are now available online, from 1878 to 1935. Moore said the newspaper archive is probably the most underused resource available to students.
External Affairs Art Director Angela Lashaway is in charge of Cumulus, another growing digital database of college-related photos and images, but she was quick to make a distinction between the two databases.
The first distinction is that the nearly 50,000 images stored in Cumulus have all been produced since its conception in 2002 and are therefore not as old as images that will be found in the archives.
The second difference is that Cumulus is a private database available only on campus through the External Affairs office, and the archives database is open to public.
Also available on the Web site are the Alwin C. Carus coin collection and the Civil War diary of a man named Thomas Kimball. Kimball was Hillsdale student in 1861, but left to join the army. He was then captured and imprisoned. and later died in prisoner-of-war camp in South Carolina. Moore said the next addition to the Web site will be a series of letters written to Kimball while he was imprisoned.
The most recent digital collection Moore has been working on is an archive of Collegian issues, which are now available online, from 1878 to 1935. Moore said the newspaper archive is probably the most underused resource available to students.
External Affairs Art Director Angela Lashaway is in charge of Cumulus, another growing digital database of college-related photos and images, but she was quick to make a distinction between the two databases.
The first distinction is that the nearly 50,000 images stored in Cumulus have all been produced since its conception in 2002 and are therefore not as old as images that will be found in the archives.
The second difference is that Cumulus is a private database available only on campus through the External Affairs office, and the archives database is open to public.
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