Faculty Preview Oberlin's Shansi Project

Oberlin College recently hosted An Introduction to the “Shansi: Oberlin and Asia” Digitization Project, an event for faculty to learn more about the OC Archives' Shansi Collection and the NGL project that is putting a significant sampling of the collection online.

OC Faculty members Bonnie Cheng and Ann Sherif 

OC Archivist Ken Grossi

The event included

• An overview of the archives of Oberlin Shansi and associated personal papers, documenting the activities of Oberlin Shansi and the Ming Hsien School in early twentieth-century East Asia.
• Examples of selected photographs, films, texts, correspondence, maps, objects and ephemera available electronically for the first time.
• Discussion of the ways the collection, both online and in the College Archives, will be useful in your teaching and research.
• Presentations by Eric Estes, Carl Jacobson, Ken Grossi, Anne Salsich, Ann Sherif, and Bonnie Cheng of the new digital collection, and objects from the Archives on display.

The Shansi project is creating a collection of digital objects that document Oberlin's early contact with Asia. The project is expected to be completed for use by students and researchers in January 2012.