Kent State Shootings: Actions & Reactions

A project to digitize content from the May 4 Collection, sponsored by a grant from the National Archives' National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

• Project Summary
• Announcements
• Curriculum Utilizing Kent State Shootings Digital Archive
• Kent State Shootings Digital Archive Video Tutorial
• Project Team

Project Summary

Description: Kent State University Libraries’ department of Special Collections and Archives digitized approximately 35 cubic feet of materials (approx. 50,000 documents) related to the actions and reactions surrounding the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. The digitization of these documents allows users to explore these events and their context through free, online access. Materials digitized for this project and prior to this grant, are available in the Kent State Shootings Digital Archive.

Project dates: September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2018

Sponsors: National Historical Publications and Records Commission; Kent State University Libraries

Announcements

• Project Announcement, Press Release, October 27, 2016
• First Grant-sponsored Digital Content Available, December 2016: 
  Art Keiffer papers
  J. Charles Walker papers
  Murray I. Fishel papers
  Seymour Baron papers
• Available as of January 2017:
  Sheila Tabakoff papers
• Available as of March 2017:
  Clyde Patterson May 4 papers
  Horace A. Page papers
  Workshop in Large Scale Enameling archive
• Available as of April 2017:
  Ian Taberner papers
  Linda Lyke papers
  Thomas S. Lough papers
• Available as of May 2017:
  Confrontation at Kent Fund records
• Featured Digital Collection in the May/June 2017 D-Lib Magazine
• Available as of June 2017:
  Harold Kitner May 4 papers
  Kenneth J. Hammond papers
• Available as of July 2017:
  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) records
• Available as of August 2017:
  G. Dennis Cooke papers
  Research Papers, Theses, Dissertations, and Manuscripts Related to May 4
  William A. Gordon papers
• Available as of October 2017:
  John C. Weiser papers
  KSU Student Government May 4 records
  Simple Gestures Installation archive
• Available as of November 2017:
  Collection on George Segal's Abraham and Isaac sculpture
• Available as of December 2017:
  B. Earle Roberts papers
  Kim Sorvig papers
• Available as of January 2018:
  Annual May 4 Commemoration records
• Available as of February 2018:
  Campus Strike papers
  LeRoy Satrom papers
  William C. Barrett papers
• Spring 2018 Project Update Article on KSU News
• Available as of June 2018
  Commission on KSU Violence records
  May 4 Resource Room records
• Available as of July 2018
  Jerry M. Lewis papers
  Kent State University Administrative Offices records
  University Commission to Implement a Commitment to Non-Violence records
• Available as of August 2018
  A Gathering of Poets records
  Center for Peaceful Change records
  James Nuber papers
  May 4 Art collection
  May 4 Poetry collection
  May 4th Task Force records
• Sample May 4 Curriculum Utilizing Kent State Shootings digital content now available
  • View/Download Curriculum (utilizes the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards)

Kent State Shootings Digital Archive Tutorial

Official Project Team

(titles and personnel at the time of grant completion, 2016-2018)

• Virginia Dressler, Digital Projects Librarian, co-director
• Cara Gilgenbach, Head, Special Collections and Archives, co-director
• Haley Antell, Digital Project Archivist
• Digital Project Student Assistants (Kayla Henry, Abigail Sachs, Katy Tribuzzo)
• Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Archivist
• Cindy Kristof, Head, Copyright and Document Services
• Joe Corall, Senior Applications Developer
• Jeph Remley, Senior Applications Developer