Engaging the Community Through Digital Archives: the Lakeland Community Heritage Project
Since 2009, Dr. Mary Corbin Sies has been teaching a community-engaged class in which her students collaborate with the Lakeland Community Heritage Project to help document and archive the history and culture of this historic African American neighborhood, adjacent to our campus, in College Park. The class uses Omeka software (www.omeka.org) to house the digital archive, which includes deeds, newspaper clippings, photographs, oral histories, and videos. This brown bag will showcase the Lakeland archive on Omeka and talk about the benefits and challenges of using Omeka.