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Archives are not a digital Mecca where every text of every document is online and searchable by keyword ~ archivist Luncinda Glenn, Graduate Theological Union Archives.
That being said, more and more individual images and documents are going online every day, along with descriptions of collections. These are put up to conserve fragile documents, to provide easier and greater access to records that are in high demand among researchers and to draw attention to an archives collections in order to bring people in for more indepth research.
Hilltopper Heritage is the University Archives “digital Mecca” for WKU sources including historic events, biographies of faculty, staff and alumni, photographs and departmental histories. You will find digitized yearbooks, College Heights Herald articles and building histories. While we will never digitize the entire collection, it is a good place to begin your research. Hilltopper Heritage also allows for users to share their memories of WKU experiences with us through Share a Tradition.
Archives and libraries are becoming extinct. Even though it’s much easier and convenient for current students to find anything online instead of going to the library and searching for a book, we are missing a touch of history. Next generations might not even know how a book or a newspaper looks like.
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