[SOA] archives presence at Homecoming events

[Dean DeBolt]

 There are usually several tabling events at our Homecoming in a plaza just
outside the Library, and I'll set up an Archives table with photographs,
artifacts,
yearbooks, etc.   The majority of lookers are students and sometimes faculty
and staff.  It also depends on the weather; when I was in Columbus or
Cleveland, the weather was much cooler than here.

Dean

Dean DeBolt, University Librarian (Professor)/University Archivist
UWF Archives and West Florida History Center
University of West Florida Library
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
ddebolt at uwf.edu;   850-474-2213

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Dean of Libraries <sclark2 at uwf.edu>




On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM Barb Sedlock via OHIOARCHIVISTS <
ohioarchivists at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> For the college/university archivists out there:
>
> What if anything does your archives/special collections department do
> at your college/univ's Homecoming events?
>
> For some years now I have been staffing an archives "booth" at the
> tailgate tent before the football game, taking extra print copies of
> our old yearbooks for the alumni to look at, and also taking 3-ring
> binders of unidentified photos from the archives, hoping alums will
> look through them and help us ID them.   The latter has limited
> success, I might get 8-10 photos ID'd that way out of maybe 100-150
> photos that I take to the booth.
>
> We are wondering if other colleges might have different means of
> raising the archives' profile at alumni events?
> Thanks,
> Barb Sedlock
> Defiance College
> bsedlock at defiance.edu
>
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