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Category: Metadata and Digital Initiatives

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    The Ball State University Black Student Association Collection is Now Live in Ball State’s Digital Media Repository
    January 9, 2022 by

    The University Libraries continues to provide access to university history with a new Digital Media Repository [DMR] collection.  The Ball State University Black Student Association [BSA] digital collection provides access to organizational documents, internal documents, memos, publications, photographs, posters, flyers, and scrapbooks. BSA began as an off-campus organization under the name Black Student Union in […]

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    Beeman Historic Costumes
    March 4, 2021 by

    The Beeman Historic Costume Collection housed in the Department of Applied Business Studies in the Miller College of Business contains over 4,000 pieces of men’s and women’s apparel dating back to the 18th century. The collection began in the 1930s when the Frank C. Ball family presented Mary Beeman, head of what was then known […]

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  • Book Arts Collaborative

    University Libraries and Book Arts Collaborative
    January 3, 2021 by

    Book Arts Collaborative is an immersive learning course and student-managed business that offers Ball State University and community courses in letterpress printing, book binding, and collaborative opportunities for artist’s book making.   Located in the Madjax Building in downtown Muncie, the BAC shares space with Tribune Showprint, Inc. – the oldest continually-operating letterpress company in the […]

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