UC Merced Library Chosen to Digitize AIDS Historical Archives | Graduate Division

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"The UC Merced Library’s digital assets team is playing an important role in providing access to a swath of modern history that will contribute to research and society.

The team has been asked to digitize about 127,000 pages from 49 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the AIDS History Project, which is being funded by a two-year, $315,000 Implementation Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The project is a joint effort of the Archives and Special Collections department of the UCSF Library, the San Francisco Public Library, and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.

'This is a great opportunity to look deeply into how community groups and the medical community mobilized to help combat the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco,' said Emily Lin, head of the library’s Digital Assets Unit. 'It will give people a much more detailed look and different levels of understanding about how these people and groups went about solving a problem, including how effective they were at shaping public opinion and affecting change.'"

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http://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu/news/2017/uc-merced-library-chosen-digitize-aids-historical-archives

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05/18/2017, 18:36

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05/18/2017, 14:36