Brackett Library is pleased to announce the publication of our newly enhanced Digital Archives site. In addition to the thousands of images available in Flickr, social club history, and oral histories are being made available in a new and exciting format.
"What we want to do is preserve as much of Harding's history as we can," said Library Director Ann Dixon in an interview with the Bison. In the same interview, Systems Librarian Brenda Breezeel stated, "We want to make available Harding’s history for people to view it from wherever they are."
Our hope is that digital archives site the will help in both of those goals. Current contents include social club scrapbooks, a collection of Jim Bill McInteer's sermon outlines, Spring Sing programs, and interviews with Dr. George S. Benson. Many of the entries are multimedia presentations. Scrapbook pages make noises as pages are turned, and a collection of slide shows from the past have been reformatted into movies accompanied by their soundtracks.
So whether or not you have time to return for Homecoming, you can still enjoy the memories of your days at Harding. If you have club scrapbooks you would like to donate to the project, please contact Ann Dixon at 501-279-4354 or Brenda Breezeel at 501-279-5387. A waiting list for future digitization has already been started, and projects will be completed as time and personnel allows.
