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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ President Ivory V. Nelson has announced recent significant additions to the library’s existing digital special collections, which were initiated in 2003.
These additions have been made possible by a 2008 grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) that supported preservation microfilming and scanning from microfilm of materials in the library’s special collections.
Additions include: the handwritten and typed minute books of Lincoln University’s faculty from 1872-1976; the handwritten and typed minute books of Lincoln University’s Board of Trustees and several of its committees from 1913-1959; a record book from the 1890s of handwritten annual reports by the president to the board; the university’s earliest library catalogue, handwritten in a ledger book in 1867; the handwritten minutes of one of the two student literary societies, the Garnet Literary Association from 1899-1917, and the yearbooks through 1980.
Most of the new digital collections are available online through A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University (http://contentdm.auctr.edu
The Langston Hughes Memorial Library’s digital special collections also include a complete collection of Lincoln University catalogues from 1865 through 1998; alumni newsletters from 1884 through 2000; alumni directories from 1912 through 1991, and student newspapers from 1925 through 2003; faculty and board minutes going back to the founding; as well as the handwritten nineteenth century minute books of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society and the Young Men’s Colonization Society of Pennsylvania.
Previously digitized materials are divided between the HBCU Library Alliance Collection and Lincoln University’s web site. Microfilms of all materials are also available for viewing in the Pennsylvania archives. The University plans to make the yearbooks accessible via the University web site.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.