New Digital Program Specialist at WSSU - Olivia Carteaux

This past June, the WSSU Archives was fortunate to be awarded a  LSTA grant through the State of North Carolina. The grant will fund a project to digitize and make available the entirety of the WSSU University Photograph Collection. A major part of this process will be creating original metadata to make the images searchable. Olivia will be responsible for creating the metadata for the project. Below is a brief message from Olivia introducing herself.

Hello, my name is Olivia Carteaux and I am the new Digital Program Specialist in Library Services at the WSSU Archives. I've been in NC since 1998, and in Greensboro since 2009, recently graduating with my MLIS from UNCG in 2014. I have worked in an audiovisual archive and have done some work with manuscripts, and look forward to adding photographs to the list, and learning about WSSU and Winston-Salem in the process sounds pretty all around fantastic to me. Aside from archives, non-commercial radio is my passion (I was GM of WUAG in Greensboro for 2 years), so I am also looking forward to getting acquainted with WSNC 90.1 FM.


Stay posted from updates on the project as we will be asking for the public's help in identifying many of the images that we are digitizing.

Larry Little: NC Black Panther Legacy

Please help us celebrate the donation of the Larry Little Manuscript Collection

to the Winston-Salem State University Archives

This reception is open to everyone.

For more information please call

Tom Flynn at 336-750-2426

or email to flynnth@wssu.edu

Check out the O'Kelly LASER

If you haven't been playing O'Kelly's LASER, there is still time.  Here is how to get involved:

Banned Book Read-A-Thon

The C.G. O'Kelly Library is hosting a banned book read-a-thon in conjunction with national banned book week.

 

Wednesday September 24, 2014

9:00am - 5-00pm

At the Clock Tower

 

For more information please contact Janet Malliett

336-750-8867

malliettjm@wssu.edu

Forethinkers: The Evolution of Math Beyond Equations and Solutions

Below please find the video highlights from the most recent C.G. O'Kelly Friends of the Library Event.  For a complete video of the event please contact the WSSU Archives at 336-750-2426.

 

 

 

 

Personal Library of Dr. Simon G. Atkins

"A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life,” wrote abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Simon Green Atkins, educator, religious leader, community developer and founder of Slater Industrial Academy, now Winston-Salem State University, understood Beecher’s philosophy. Dr. Atkins managed to amass nearly 500 books over his 71 year lifespan.

The Simon Green Atkins Book Collection contains poetry by Virgil, edition of Carter G. Woodson’s The Journal of Negro History, and guides to understanding government and laws.

A complete bibliography of the personal library of the Atkins Family will be made available in the coming weeks.

Post written by Harvey Long.

Photo Identification at Hall of Fame Reception

On Friday November 8th, 2013 Winston-Salem State University welcomed the 2013 inductees to the C.E. Gaines Athletic Hall of Fame.  In an attempt to crowdsource the identification process of images held in the WSSU Archives, a table was set up to allow the inductees to view and identify fellow athletes during the reception hour.  Based on the dates the athletes attended WSSU, 224 unidentified images were compiled for them to browse through.  With a little under an hour to get photographs identified, we are pleased to announce that 23 images were identified and have since been confirmed.

We would like to thank and congratulate all those inducted into the Hall of Fame.