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Digitizing Appalachia: Collaborating with Local Institutions and Harnessing Omeka to Capture Southern Appalachia’s Cultural Heritage
Pamela Mitchem and Dea Rice (Appalachian State University) Appalachian State University is a regional comprehensive university serving over 17,000 students and employing close to 900 faculty. The Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons endeavors to cultivate an environment where people discover, create and share information that reflects the acquisition of 21st century knowledge and…
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Digital Storytelling as a Tool to Preserve the History of the Williamsport Black Community
Amy Rogers and Lynn Estomin (Lycoming College) During the spring 2016 semester, two professors from diverse educational backgrounds, a group of freshmen from all over the United States, and 15 African American community members from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, came together to create a digital archive of stories documenting the history of the Black community of Lycoming…
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The Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Using Facebook to Document a Community
Jennie Levine Knies (Penn State Wilkes-Barre) and Melissa R. Meade (Temple University) In 2013, Temple University PhD candidate Melissa R. Meade started a Facebook page for the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, to share and curate material relevant to her community-based ethnographic dissertation project. The page has evolved into a place in which community…