From the Director
Lisa Pruitt
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From the Director Lisa Pruitt |
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Spring has finally arrived at MTSU and, with it, another
opportunity to update the campus community about the work of the Gore Research
Center.
Since November, the Center has had mounted in the foyer an
exhibit of materials related to veterans. Most
of the display consists of colorful publicity material depicting women in World
War II, but other items illustrate the history of the WWII maneuvers in Middle
Tennessee and a few things touch on World War I.
Please come by soon to view this display – it will come down by the end
of April.
The next Gore Center exhibit will focus on a significant
anniversary. Rutherford County
celebrates its bicentennial this year, so we will be displaying material in the
Center’s collections that illuminate the County’s history.
The Bicentennial Celebration culminates in late October with coordinated
community-wide events. Watch this site and the Daily News Journal for more
information in the coming months.
One of our projects this spring has been to come up with
new ways to encourage MTSU faculty and students to use the Center’s
collections. In this issue of The
Document, an article by graduate assistant Heather Bailey highlights some of
the valuable resources that the Center has to offer researchers.
Other features in this issue include an update on exciting news from the Rutherford County Archives by County Archives graduate assistant Van Zbinden, an article by Gore Center graduate assistant Kevin Cason describing his work processing collections, and a report on the continuing Gore Biography Project by project research assistant Michael Martin.