Amherst College (Emily Dickinson Museum)

The Emily Dickinson Museum will improve collections documentation by digitizing institutional records related to its approximately 8,000 artifacts pertaining to the family of American poet Emily Dickinson. Museum staff will scan physical records and upload and manage the digitized files in their digital asset management system. Project staff will also travel to other repositories of Dickinson-related archival information and, with staff from those partnering organizations, conduct surveys of primary sources related to collections objects. This project will result in more complete collections information management, enabling the museum to interpret the poet’s life and times more fully, and provide public and scholarly access to an important cultural collection.