<div dir="ltr"><div> There are usually several tabling events at our Homecoming in a plaza just</div><div>outside the Library, and I'll set up an Archives table with photographs, artifacts,</div><div>yearbooks, etc. The majority of lookers are students and sometimes faculty</div><div>and staff. It also depends on the weather; when I was in Columbus or </div><div>Cleveland, the weather was much cooler than here.</div><div><br></div><div>Dean</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dean DeBolt, University Librarian (Professor)/University Archivist<br>UWF Archives and West Florida History Center</font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">University of West Florida Library<br>11000 University Parkway<br>Pensacola, FL 32514-5750<br></font><a href="mailto:ddebolt@uwf.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ddebolt@uwf.edu</font></a><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">; 850-474-2213</font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">West Florida History Center is the largest and most comprehensive</font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">history collection about Pensacola and the West Florida region.</font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://libguides.uwf.edu/universityarchives" target="_blank">http://libguides.uwf.edu/universityarchives</a></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Digital collections can be found at: <a href="http://archives.uwf.edu/" target="_blank">http://uwf.lyrasistechnology.org </a></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">and <a href="http://uwf.digital.flvc.org" target="_blank">http://uwf.digital.flvc.org</a></font></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>If we've been of service, please let us know or our administration,</font></div><div><font>Dean of Libraries <<a href="mailto:sclark2@uwf.edu" target="_blank">sclark2@uwf.edu</a>></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM Barb Sedlock via OHIOARCHIVISTS <<a href="mailto:ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org">ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For the college/university archivists out there:<br>
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What if anything does your archives/special collections department do<br>
at your college/univ's Homecoming events?<br>
<br>
For some years now I have been staffing an archives "booth" at the<br>
tailgate tent before the football game, taking extra print copies of<br>
our old yearbooks for the alumni to look at, and also taking 3-ring<br>
binders of unidentified photos from the archives, hoping alums will<br>
look through them and help us ID them. The latter has limited<br>
success, I might get 8-10 photos ID'd that way out of maybe 100-150<br>
photos that I take to the booth.<br>
<br>
We are wondering if other colleges might have different means of<br>
raising the archives' profile at alumni events?<br>
Thanks,<br>
Barb Sedlock<br>
Defiance College<br>
<a href="mailto:bsedlock@defiance.edu" target="_blank">bsedlock@defiance.edu</a><br>
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