About the Project
In this Fellowship, students worked alongside mentors on a digitization project to Digitization Project to improve accessibility to the archival records of Vanderbilt’s KC Potter Center (KCPC). These valuable records document LGBTQIA+ life and the work of the KCPC on Vanderbilt’s campus. Under the mentorship of Sarah Calise, Metadata Librarian for Vanderbilt Libraries, and Stephanie Mahnke, Director of the KC Potter Center, fellows digitized historical materials dating as far back as the 1990s, which included newspaper articles, photographs, programs, press releases, letters, and oral histories pertaining to previous conferences, events, and community concerns from both Vanderbilt’s Lambda Student Organization and the KC Potter Center. Students learned highly used digitization technologies, metadata creation, and digital collections development using the JSTOR Community Collections.
Mentors
Stephanie Mahnke; Sarah Calise
Fellows
Corrina Lueptow, Ziqi Zhan, Claire Chen, Elisa Park, Sawyer Sussner, Rebeca Ferreira Gonclaves
Project
Students organized, scanned, and scanned a full digital collection of the K.C. Potter Center Records, which contain official documents from Vanderbilt University’s Office of LGBTQI Life. The collection can be found in JSTOR.