Open Parks Network 

An original IMLS National Leadership Grant project turned into a Clemson University Digital Library program, partnering with divisions of the National Park Service, as well as state park systems.

In house: 300,000 images and counting
Outsource: 141,273 images

• Photographs (including slides)
• Negatives
• Aerials
• Glass negatives/slides
• Documents (bound/unbound/handwritten)
• Stereotypes/scopes
• Hebarium specimens
• Oversize and maps
• Donor cards

Our parks partners

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South Carolina Digital Library (SCDL) Collections can be found at SCMemory.org

Call My Name

• 4 – African American community scanning events in 2019 and 2021 held at Clemson University, Clemson, and Seneca.

The Citadel, Daniel Library

• “Sphinx” yearbook scanned with a Betterlight Super8k used with book cradle.

Coastal Carolina University

• “The Independent Republic Quarterly” journals. Scanned with Epson 10000XL. Coastal News article on the project.

Columbia College

• Early historical documents from Columbia College including diplomas, class rings, sorority pins, and student records. Scanned with an Epson 10000XL, Atiz Bookscanner Pro, and PhaseOne IQ180.

Faith Clayton Genealogy Room

• Central High School Yearbooks
• Plats, deeds, and documents from Faith Clayton Family collection

Furman University

• “Materials Towards a History of the Baptists in the Provinces of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia” by Morgan Edwards, 1722. Scanned with a Betterlight Super8k.

Greenwood County Library

• James Calvin Hemphill, Sr. Architectural Collection contains architectural plans, artists’ renderings and photographs of buildings that he designed during his career.

Greenville County Library Systems

• McBee & Sons Store Ledger (1846-1858) originally scanned with a Betterlight Super8k and rescanned using an Atiz Bookscanner Pro.
• Maps scanned with a PhaseOne IQ180 digital back.

Historic Mobile Preservation Society of Alabama

• Newspapers and scrapbooks scanned with an Epson 10000XL, PhaseOne IQ180, and Atiz Bookscanner Pro.

Lake Hartwell Country

• Davenport nitrate negative collection. Scanned with an Epson V750 Pro.
• Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church records consisted of photographs, manuscripts, journals, and letters scanned with an Atiz Bookscanner Pro and an Epson 10000XL.
• Talioferro letters set in the Revolutionary period, which mainly contains Caroline Taliferro’s correspondence. The subject of the collection all includes land records and receipts from various generations of the Taliaferro/Miller family. As a whole, the letters range from 1788-1925. Caroline Taliaferro’s correspondence ranges from 1830-1844. The land and financial records remain in the years 1796-1925, with a miscellaneous group of materials at the end of the collection.

Lander University

• Lander University Yearbooks

Presbyterian College

• William Plumer Jacobs collection consisting of photographs, manuscripts, journals, and books. Scanned with an Epson 10000XL, Betterlight Super8k, and Epson V750 Pro.

SCDL

• “A Nickel and a Prayer” by Edna Jane Hunter. Scanned with a Betterlight Super8k.

Southern Wesleyan University

• SWU yearbooks

USC Union

• USC Union yearbooks
• Commencement programs

USC Upstate

• USC Upstate yearbooks
• Commencement programs

Upcountry History Museum

• Wilson Photographic Collection, 1941-1986. Collection consisted of mostly negatives scanned with an Epson 10000XL, Epson V750 Pro, and a Kodak iQSmart3 (14,413 images).