Slide Collection
by Georganna Hawley
If you have ever found yourself in need of media resources for teaching a section or a class, there will soon be a new slide collection available to you!
Last summer, during the Great Exodus from North Hall to HSSB, many hidden and forgotten treasures were rediscovered, including about 10,000 loose slides, many from the past a teaching collection. Mike Glassow is helping me write a grant for archival supplies, and interns assisted in data entry last quarter.
What is included in the collection? There are dozens of stone tool typologies, maps, 18th and 19th century anthropological illustrations, fieldwork an all regions of the world (both archaeological and ethnographic), evolution and human origins, local historic projects, modern and ancient architecture, sunsets, and (my personal favorite) a study of ornate Victorian toilet bowls.
There are a many slides I am able to identify in only very general terms, so I would like to take advantage of the terrific diversity in this department, and enlist your help. Anyone with a few minutes is urged to drop by the Info Center (Room 2211 HSSB, Arcade Wing), and if you identify a slide, and I have duplicates, you can have the extra for your very own! Many thanks to Susan Seifkin, Justin Jennings, and Ethan Bertrando for already taking me up on the offer. Thanks also to Brian Fagan, the originator of the collection, who has been bombarded by my questions.
At present about 1500 titles are in the database, and I hope to be done by the end of this quarter. The slides and database will be in the Repository (Room 0010 HSSB), and the plan is to put the database on the Graduate Communication computer also. The project was designed to be dynamic and inclusive to all areas of interest, so if you have any duplicates of your own slides, we will add them to the collection also. Stop me in the halls, or call ext 2474 when you want to drop by.
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