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HARRY GOLDEN VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Special Collections Department of the Atkins Library at
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announces the
establishment of the Harry Golden Visiting Scholars Program.
The program was established with a bequest by Mrs. Anita Stewart
Brown to honor the memory of Harry Golden, author of the best
selling book Only in America and publisher of The Carolina Israelite.
Two grants of $500 - $1000 will be awarded each year to researchers
using materials that are held by the Special Collections Department.
For
more information, click here.
NEW SOUTH VOICES PROJECT RECEIVES GRANT TO EXPAND DATABASE
The Atkins Library Special Collections Department at UNC Charlotte
has received a grant to enhance its New South Voices oral history
database. The grant will allow Special Collections to add digitized
transcripts and audio of more than 200 oral history interviews
related to Civil Rights, Education, the African-American experience,
and the Native American experience in North Carolina to the
publicly available database, which already contains some 600
interviews. Additionally, to provide further historical context
for the interviews, supplemental material from manuscript collections
will be digitized and integrated into lesson plans designed
by Middle and High School social studies teachers as part of
a two week hands-on institute to utilize oral history materials
in the classroom. This project is supported by $48,680 in grant
funds from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services
under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology
Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina,
a division of the NC Department of Cultural Resources and 10%
in matching funds from UNC Charlotte.
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