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Jackson Library Puts UNCG History on the Web

GREENSBORO - The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has posted on the web many of the important documents – speeches, letters, catalogs and other materials – from its early history.

The collection – http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/hhenc – contains more than 1,300 pages and photographs from the institution’s first 15 years, from its charter in 1891 until the death of founder Charles Duncan McIver in 1906. Those formative years included the typhoid epidemic of 1899 and the dormitory fire of 1904.

North Carolina ECHO, the state’s Exploring Cultural Heritage Online program, provided almost $14,000 to UNCG for the project. Five other colleges and universities in the state also received grants for the initiative dubbed Beyond Books and Buildings: History of Higher Education. The federal government allotted the money to the state in the Library Services and Technology Act.

Former library technical assistant Linda Jacobson coordinated the project. Students Sam Carter, Adam Ronan and Jason Setzer digitized the documents, and Egemen Baykal provided technical expertise. For more information about the project, contact University Archivist Betty Carter at 334-4045.

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