North Carolina Central University News January 28, 2011 North Carolina Central University Yearbooks Now Available Digitally North Carolina Central University alumni can now take a stroll down memory lane - remembering their days amid the sloping hills and verdant green - right from their homes. The James E. Shepard Memorial Library has announced that all NCCU yearbooks, from the first one in 1929 to the current 2010 Centennial edition, have been captured in digital form and can be viewed online at http://web.nccu.edu/shepardlibrary/redirection/NCCUYearbooks.html. The Shepard library staff, in collaboration with the N.C. Digital Heritage Center and the N.C. Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (NC ECHO), began work on the process more than a year ago. NCCU supplied the yearbooks, which were scanned by the Digital Heritage Center. The process took two months. "It is a wonderful opportunity to recruit and share the history of NCCU, allowing people to reconnect to the university," said Dr. Theodosia Shields, director of Library Services. "We can now meet the requests of alumni who are seeking copies of their yearbook. And it gives current students a history of the university." Over the years, the publication has gone through a few names, including "The N.C.C. Eagle," "The Maroon and Gray," and "The Campus Echo Review," but it has been called "The Eagle" since 1952. "The yearbook has always been a student-led publication," said André Vann, university archivist. "So the name changes would have been student-driven." Both Vann and Shields are optimistic that this initiative, funded by the Institute of Library Services through the State Library of North Carolina, is just the beginning of digitizing several of the university's historic publications, including the student newspaper, the Campus Echo. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.