Founded in 2015 by a group of political science majors, The Globe quickly became the college’s official student newspaper. First supported by Student Involvement as a Registered Student Organization, the publication is now housed in the School of Liberal Arts.
The DH lab recently assisted Amy Eklund, Head of Resource Management at the Kaufman Library, and Catherine Downey, Associate Dean of Library Services, to digitize all of the back issues of GGC’s student newspaper, The Globe. They used the lab’s flatbed scanner to digitize the newspapers.
“Digitizing the paper that we didn’t have the digital version form was something we could do because of the equipment in the DH lab,” said Ecklund.
Downey had the idea to do an archiving project for the Sandbox Experience and specifically work with student publications. Together, they decided that The Globe would be a great candidate. They uploaded the files to General Space, which is Kaufman Library’s institutional repository.
Part of the mission of the library archives is to collect the history of GGC, so The Globe is a great addition to General Space. Also, it is fully searchable and findable on the web. Students and faculty can access this content here: General Space.
“I had writers and editors ask me for copies of articles they had written because there was nowhere to find them and they were submitting them for Graduate School or jobs,” said Downey. “So, it’s another good thing about preserving the history.”
The biggest challenge for Ecklund and Downey was to find where the back issues were located and download them to a usable format so they could make keywords searchable in both the digital library of Georgia and the larger Galileo Knowledge Repository.