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What’s in a Name? Reviewing, Organizing, and Researching the History of Eastern Oregon University’s Pierce Library

Project tags:

archives & special collections

Project poster

It has long been debated if Walter Pierce, namesake of Eastern Oregon University Pierce Library, was affiliated with the KKK. The committee tasked with reviewing this issue requested access to archival materials about library history and Walter Pierce, but these materials were neither inventoried nor organized, leaving them inaccessible. To address this, I inventoried the items and organized them into two collections, then I produced finding aids and itemized spreadsheets for each collection. I also searched for library-related newspaper articles to supplement the collections. The Walter M. Pierce and Pierce Library General History collections are now accessible to library users.

Project participants:

Mackenzie Trotter

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