{"id":49854,"date":"2018-10-23T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=49854"},"modified":"2022-12-06T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:27:43","slug":"one-day-in-may-recordings-digitizing-a-crucial-day-in-augsburgs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2018\/10\/23\/one-day-in-may-recordings-digitizing-a-crucial-day-in-augsburgs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: \u201cOne Day in May\u201d Recordings: Digitizing a Crucial Day in Augsburg\u2019s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/OneDayinMay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-49855 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/OneDayinMay-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lillian Anthony and Dr. Mary Howard reflect the thoughtful mood of &quot;One Day in May.&quot;\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/OneDayinMay-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/OneDayinMay-768x964.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/OneDayinMay.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>In 2013, the Augsburg University Archives received fifteen boxes of \u201creel-to-reel\u201d audio recordings and promptly began an ongoing project to save them. Created from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, these recordings documented everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uPIhdeVvgYQ\">commencements<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UKmhZkE8t5o\">building dedication ceremonies<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzwL5TRpglBHdASlOYa_sQA\/playlists?shelf_id=11&amp;view=50&amp;sort=dd\">notable speakers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzwL5TRpglBHdASlOYa_sQA\/playlists?shelf_id=12&amp;view=50&amp;sort=dd\">chapel talks<\/a>. Lindell Library purchased a refurbished reel-to-reel player and oversaw a student workers\u2019 painstaking inventory of more than 500 tapes in the collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past year, I have supervised a small army of students who have transformed these recordings into a collection of YouTube videos that grows by the day,&#8221; said Stewart Van Cleve, digital archives librarian.<\/p>\n<p>Van Cleve shared that some of the most significant and fascinating recordings come from a single day: May 15, 1968. President Oscar Anderson canceled classes on this \u201cOne Day in May,\u201d and the Augsburg community listened to leaders of Minneapolis\u2019 black community as they detailed the racism, sexism, economic and geographic segregation, and other problems that continue to affect Minneapolis\u2019 black community.<\/p>\n<p>Of the fifteen original sessions from that day, thirteen recordings have survived. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLp3IfZjFdUQJMy9uNoEADuy9KPltsIF-9\">You can listen to those recordings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About the <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.augsburg.edu\/\">Augsburg Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University Archives preserve Augsburg&#8217;s legacy and make its historical information available to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and researchers. The archives include information related to the university&#8217;s history and provide limited information about administrators, faculty, staff, and alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, the Augsburg University Archives received fifteen boxes of \u201creel-to-reel\u201d audio recordings and promptly began an ongoing project to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820,11,737],"tags":[875,79,876],"class_list":["post-49854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-reflections","category-events","category-on-campus","tag-archives","tag-augsburg","tag-one-day-in-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51491,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49854\/revisions\/51491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}