Library and Information Science Commons^™

Grand Valley State University’s Special Collections and University Archives proactively seeks to expand capacity to curate the complex born-digital materials originating from our faculty, students and student groups. This presentation will highlight three exemplary case studies--The Young Lords of Lincoln Park, the Fei Hu Films records, and The Humans of Grand Valley Project--each of which are collections at GVSU that exemplify our exciting forays into programmatically archiving the personal.

 

More than simply accessioning institutional records, these collections represent the University’s efforts to preserve and promote the distinctive personalities and creative outputs of their donors, as well …