| The Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection
A planning and pilot project to assess and
digitize selectively the papers of Eugene B. Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St.
Louis, Illinois, and Professor Emeritus of Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville (SIUE), reflecting his participation in the Black Arts Movement of
the 1960s and 1970s. Donated to SIUE in
2007, the collection comprises approximately 325 cubic feet of material,
including manuscripts, correspondence with nationally prominent writers and
artists, flyers, printed materials, and photographs.
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville's Library and Information Services requests funding to plan and form
a pilot project of the Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection. The EBR Digital
Collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars studying the Black Arts
Movement as it comprises an extensive record of images, flyers, programs,
recordings, and artifacts documenting the literary activity of hundreds of
African American literary and cultural figures from the mid-1960s to the
present. The project team will develop a plan, to be tested via a pilot
project, for the creation of the EBR Digital Collection. The outputs for this
planning period will include documents detailing selection criteria, rights
management, standardization of metadata, digitization, and quality control. The
pilot phase of the project will involve the digitization of a small selection of
materials from the EBR Collection to allow the project team to test and revise
their plans for the rest of the Collection.
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Project fields:
Arts, Other
Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Division:
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$48,664 (approved)
$48,664 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2019 – 4/30/2023
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