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Author Archives: University Archives
Let’s Get Digital, Part II
In a previous post in May 2021, we discussed the use of vendors for digitization in the archives. This same month, we dropped off six collections, including William Everett Derryberry, William Brinker, Dave Johnson, the Upper Cumberland Institute, Tennessee Tech … Continue reading
Posted in Building History, Digital Preservation
Tagged Carillon, DerryberryHall, Digitization, Film, oralhistory, skydiving, TechYeah, TTUArchives, Video, WilliamEverettDerryberry, WingsUp
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Christmas Forest Exhibit
Each year, Tech Archive’s participates in the Christmas Forest exhibit hosted by the Cookeville History Museum. The exhibit features Christmas trees decorated by numerous local non-profits such as Cookeville Leisure Services, Friends of White Plains, and the Putnam County Imagination … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Preservation, Uncategorized
Tagged christmas, Christmastree, Holiday
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Cookeville Mall Revisited
Tech Archives worked with vendors to perform our digitization on negatives, reel film and sound, and cassette tapes. Almost 10,000 negatives featuring the Upper Cumberland from the 1930s to the 1970s are currently being described and will be available online … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcades, CookevilleMall, Digitization, Halloween, hubcity, J.C.Penney, PutnamCounty, SantaClausisComingtoTown, ThriveFamilyFunCenter, UpperCumberland
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The Eagle Online!!!
This summer, Tech Archives had yearbooks dating from 1926 to 2003 digitized and made text searchable. As mentioned in previous articles, scanning is time consuming and tedious. As a result, we used a vendor for the physical scanning while cataloging … Continue reading
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Tagged Digitization, TheEagle, Yearbooks
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Let’s get digital!!!
Tech Archive got an upgrade! We have been determined to create a digitization studio to assist us with digitizing some of our many unique materials. This does not easily come out-of-the-box, so we purchased materials piecemeal and worked on practical … Continue reading
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Tagged digital photographs, Digitization, Oversize, TechYeah, TheOracle
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Vendors and Digitization
On Tuesday, May 11, I dropped off some sound and video recording to a professional digitization service in Atlanta, GA. I dropped off these materials so that I could ensure they securely made it to the facility. The materials we … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Preservation, Tech History
Tagged Digitization, EscapefromAtlanta, gascrisis, Media, projectors, reeltoreel, TechYeah, Umatic
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New Exhibit Explores the History of Black Students and Employees at Tennessee Tech
By Hannah O’Daniel McCallon The Tennessee Tech University Archives’ newest digital exhibit is now live! “Imagine Going Half a Day and Not Seeing Anybody That Looks Like You”: A History of Black Students & Employees at Tennessee Tech provides a … Continue reading
Posted in Tech History, Uncategorized
Tagged archives, Athletes, BlackhistoryatTenneseeTech, Blackstudentactivism, BlackStudentOrganization, DarwinSchool, LeonaLusk, OfficeofMulticulturalAffairs, RACEPLUS, RobertOwens, TechYeah
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“What Affects One Group Affects All of Us”: Black Student Activism at Tennessee Tech
by Hannah O’Daniel McCallon The Archives’s newest exhibit is now open in the Multicultural Affairs’s case on the top floor of the University Center! “What Affects One Group Affects All of Us”: Black Student Activism at Tennessee Tech highlights the … Continue reading
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Letter from the University Archivist
This “Archives with Atkinson” article is released after our traditional Homecoming here at Tennessee Tech. It is also the 90th homecoming at Tech and may be the most unique one we had to date. No live concerts, no in-person Golden … Continue reading
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History of the Leona Lusk Officer Black Cultural Center Exhibit
by Hannah O’Daniel McCallon Caption: Photograph of students posing as a group in the Black Cultural Center on October 14, 1999. Source: Office of Multicultural Affairs records The Archives is creating three digital exhibits to celebrate the 30-year Anniversary of … Continue reading
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