WKU vs Youngstown, 2002
If anyone had told me when I was in school that one day I would get paid to identify college logos on football helmets I would have laughed. Some days that’s exactly what I do.
Processing photographs involves evaluation of quality in relation to other similar images in the collection.
WKU vs WIU, 2002, long focus
Identification of people, places and events and even athletic teams. Rehousing in mylar sleeves and acid free folders. And occasionally discarding images due to blurriness or poor composition.
WKU Archives holds approximately 50,000 photographs, slides, negatives and drawings. Photographs are described in bulk by topic in KenCat, our online catalog. Broad topics include campus buildings, portraits, organizations, athletics and events. As researchers request images for projects, they are digitized. At that time a thumbnail image and corresponding description are entered into KenCat. To date, a little over 9,000 have been digitized. Check out WKU Archives – Photograph Collection for more detailed information regarding the collection.