Cornell Library will help document the founding of historically black colleges and universities

A digital collection that chronicles the founding of America’s black colleges and universities will continue to expand, thanks to a $450,000 grant to Cornell University Library from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Cornell Library is sharing its expertise in digital imaging, preservation and management with librarians and archivists from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance to lay the foundation for an HBCU digital library. Ira Revels, senior assistant librarian at Cornell Library is project manager.

Important materials from the founding collections of 10 HBCU institutions will soon be available online in a digital collection, “Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University.”

Source: Cornell Chronicle

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