FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy" 1/2/2007
CONTACT:
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Laurie Mercier, Department of History, 360/546-9646, mercier@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Susan Tissot, Clark County Historical Museum, 360/993-5679, tissots@pacifier.com
- Earl Ford, Vancouver NAACP, 360/256-6232, earlwford@aol.com
Vancouver, Wash - Washington State University Vancouver library and history department have partnered with the Vancouver Branch of the NAACP and the Clark County Historical Society and Museum to archive and digitize selections of the NAACP's local historical records.
In a signing ceremony at the museum, Dec. 20, the Vancouver NAACP officially donated its archive to the Clark County Historical Society and Museum, who will in turn work with 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø on archiving and digitizing the project.
91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø's role will also include creating an online, digital archive dedicated to the collection, linked from both the museum and NAACP Web sites.
91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø associate professor of history Laurie Mercier and director of information services Leslie Wykoff received an internal 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø grant to help fund the project through June 2007.
"We have this wonderful, valuable collection that the NAACP has carefully preserved," said Mercier. "Now we are able to process that with university expertise to make it more widely available to the public and researchers."
For more information about the Vancouver NAACP, visit . For more information about the Clark County Historical Society and Museum, visit .
Photos courtesy 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø. High resolution images available by clicking small photos.
NAACP1: Valree Joshua, President Emeritus of the Vancouver NAACP, and Bertha Baugh, one of the chapter founders, stand with the organizations archives being donated to the Clark County Historical Museum, and digitized by Washington State University Vancouver.
NAACP2 and NAACP3:
Laurie Mercier, Washington State University history professor, and Earl Ford, president of the Vancouver NAACP, sign an agreement at the Clark County Historical Museum to digitize the local NAACP archives with 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø technology and donate them to the museum.
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