SPECIAL COLLECTIONS PARTNER IN GRANT TO DIGITIZE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

UNC Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library is a partner in a substantial grant to digitize 3,831 architectural drawings and 923 photographs documenting approximately 730 buildings constructed from 1900 to 1940.  The grant, awarded to the North Carolina State University Libraries, is a collaborative effort between NC State Libraries, the State Archives of North Carolina, and the Special Collections Department at the J. Murrey Atkins Library.

Titled Beaux Arts to Modernism:  Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina, the project will digitize drawings of R Richard C. Biberstein, Martin E. Boyer, Eric G. Flannagan, Northup & O’Brien, and Herbert Woodley Simpson--five architects/architectural firms who designed important and representative buildings of the time period.  J. Murrey Atkins Library will contribute a substantial number of drawings from its Biberstein, Bowles, Meecham, & Reed Records and the Martin Evans Boyer Papers for digitization. This project will create an online resource available to scholars, educators, students, and the general public.

Beaux Arts to Modernism:  Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina is made possible, by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources

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.