Current Microfilming and Digitization Projects
Several projects are underway that will increase our online digital collections and at the same time provide the security of longterm preservation afforded by microfilming paper collections. A $15,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is funding preservation microfilming, scanning of the films, and creation of PDF files by OCLC of several collections, and Lincoln University is funding two smaller projects of the same nature. Most of these are university serial print publications, but several are handwritten 19th century manuscripts.
The handwritten materials include the Ashmun Institute and early Lincoln University Board of Trustee minutes, the minutes of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society and the Young Men's Colonization Society and a ledger book designated as a "Class Book" containing notes and thumb-nail photos of students.
Print materials include early (19th century) and mid-late 20th century Lincoln University catalogues and 20th century alumni newsletters. They will join the 19th and early 20th century newsletters, early 20th century catalogues, and student newspapers that are already online, accessible from our website
The handwritten materials include the Ashmun Institute and early Lincoln University Board of Trustee minutes, the minutes of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society and the Young Men's Colonization Society and a ledger book designated as a "Class Book" containing notes and thumb-nail photos of students.
Print materials include early (19th century) and mid-late 20th century Lincoln University catalogues and 20th century alumni newsletters. They will join the 19th and early 20th century newsletters, early 20th century catalogues, and student newspapers that are already online, accessible from our website
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