Focus on expanding cultural and ethnic inclusivity and digitizing local historical audio and print artifacts
多亏了联邦和州政府的资助, Tomlinson Library has several exciting projects in process that will expand cultural and ethnic inclusion and preserve local history in its collections and programming.
CMU's Office of Sponsored Programs assisted library staff in a competitive, 同行评议的申请过程收费10美元,000 grant from the American Library Association (ALA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the federal government's 2021 American Rescue Plan.
“图书馆一直是探索的地方, 的想法, 对自己和他人的反思, 和灵感. This grant is meant to uphold the presence of the humanities within library collections and outreach, and helps our library recover from the financial strains of the Covid-19 pandemic,劳伦·坎特韦尔说, 接驳服务主管 & 汤姆林森图书馆的外展. 与CMU文化包容委员会的学生领袖合作, 西·岛村和马赫莱·马莫, 坎特韦尔和她的工作人员挑选新书和作者购买.
“它确保我们包括许多不同的少数民族的声音, 土著, 以及其他服务不足的人群, 作者, 还有我们收藏的故事. 我们专注于维护, 扩大, 建立我们对弱势群体的支持, which helps us further establish and preserve the richness library collections are intended to have, 支持人的多样性, 经历, 和思想，世界, 还有我们的校园, 触手可及,坎特韦尔说.
The grant will also help Tomlinson Library continue hosting its monthly Cultural Café events, where students and staff put on presentations about their 经历 with various cultures of the world.
"Just as our Cultural Café event series was established to introduce cultures and customs from around the world, we are working to make sure that our campus community is part of the cafés and that their voices, 遗产, realities and perspectives are within our collection and other outreach efforts, 太. Diversity has so many faces and we are excited to take intentional steps — through our outreach efforts, through this grant and through our annual collection building efforts — to create and preserve space in the library for these voices to have a home, 和援助的支持和发展 所有 ”坎特韦尔说.
Another project made possible by this funding is the digitization of migrant worker scrapbooks from the Grand V所有ey. ALA和NEH向全国200家图书馆颁发了这笔赠款. Tomlinson is one of three selected in Colorado and the only academic library.
CMU也获得了2美元,152 from the 科罗拉多历史报纸收藏 to digitize its microfilm collection of Grand Junction Daily Sentinel issues published between 1893-1896. 在那些年里，《pp电子极速糖果》提出了一种民主党对地方问题的看法, 而州和国家大事则与其竞争报纸, 《pp电子极速糖果》站在了共和党的立场上.
Issues of this period include the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and its impact on Colorado silver mines, most of which were located on the Western Slope; water rights and the development of water infrastructure in the local area; the discovery of natural gas and oil on the Western Slope and efforts to establish wells; the construction of the first sugar beet factory on the Western Slope and the development of that agricultural product; sheep and cattle wars and their impacts on the local economy; the fruit harvests, 包括桃子, 苹果, 早葡萄栽培, and the export of these agricultural products; events at the local Teller Indian School otherwise lost because the records were destroyed by fire; the local women's suffrage movement; sm所有pox epidemics; the development of railroads on the Western Slope for economic transport and leisure; and the Bookcliff coal mines.
The Grand Junction News issues from this moment in history have been digitized and preserved as part of the Google News Archive and soon The Daily Sentinel content will be available on the 科罗拉多历史报纸收藏 网站.
CMU's contribution to the wealth of local history preservation continues with a National Historical Publications and Records Commission regrant for the digitization and transcription of oral histories related to CMU. 已聘请第三方供应商将磁带数字化, micro-cassette and reel-to-reel oral histories stored in Special Collections and 档案. Tomlinson Library will also pay current history students to transcribe the recordings. Both written and audio versions will be stored in the Mountain Scholar digital archive.
Most of the oral histories were recorded by students throughout the 1990s and early 2000s as part of the Introduction to Public History course taught by Steve Schulte, 博士学位. The older oral histories of unknown origin include interviews with early presidents Clifford Houston and Horace Wubben, 还有玛丽·雷特.
"The oral histories were chosen for the regrant because of the fragility of magnetic audio recordings in addition to their focus on CMU's history. Our hope is that the recordings can be incorporated into the 2025 centennial celebration in various ways,坎特韦尔说. She is excited to share 所有 these preservation and procurement projects with students, 教职员工. "Our other hope is that 所有 members of our campus community can discover themselves through the library."