DC accounts, adding admn...

So I've reached out to bepress and have learned, or been reminded, of what I need to do to add someone as an administrator, how to get them set up so they can upload materials etc.

1930s video upload!

Very cool to be able to upload the student intern edited version of that 1930s home movie film yesterday (and today, it took a long time to upload, lol.) This new capability of Digital Commons to host film and audio is very nice.


https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/archival_videos/1/

More DC

A fair bit of back and forth via email helping someone finish uploading things into their Digital Commons.

More Digital Commons...

A student wondering where her capstone project went, working with a grad student who is tasked with setting up a new community for Public Admin...

An 1850s alumna

A researcher is writing about a Brockport area Civil War soldier who was married to a Collegiate Institute grad, Mary Allen. Tough era to research, an 1850s student. The only surviving BCI register is from the 1860s. The catalogs of the 1840s and '50s list student names, but that's it. No yearbooks etc., and the local BR only starts with late 1850s. I did see some mentions of her as Mary Cady, the local GAR Post was named after her husband.

Digital Commons

Lots of requests here lately. Someone can't find what they uploaded, I realize I don't seem to have access to all files, have emailed Bepress about that. Pub Admin wants a new community, I am working with them on that etc. Sure would be nice if we'd been given a clerk for our little unit last year...

Wrestling, scholarships...

Have been doing a lot of work on wrestling 50th lately, scanning several scrapbooks for example. Am going to set up a new section of Digital Commons soon under archives to house athletics historical stuff. Lots of requests for scholarship bio and photo materials too.