In 2013, the 麻豆区 Archives received fifteen boxes of 鈥渞eel-to-reel鈥� audio recordings and promptly began an ongoing project to save them. Created from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, these recordings documented everything from and to and . Lindell Library purchased a refurbished reel-to-reel player and oversaw a student workers鈥� painstaking inventory of more than 500 tapes in the collection.
“Over the past year, I have supervised a small army of students who have transformed these recordings into a collection of YouTube videos that grows by the day,” said Stewart Van Cleve, digital archives librarian.
Van Cleve shared that some of the most significant and fascinating recordings come from a single day: May 15, 1968. President Oscar Anderson canceled classes on this 鈥淥ne Day in May,鈥� and the 麻豆区 community listened to leaders of Minneapolis鈥� black community as they detailed the racism, sexism, economic and geographic segregation, and other problems that continue to affect Minneapolis鈥� black community.
Of the fifteen original sessions from that day, thirteen recordings have survived. .
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The University Archives preserve 麻豆区’s legacy and make its historical information available to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and researchers. The archives include information related to the university’s history and provide limited information about administrators, faculty, staff, and alumni.