Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center

The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center (WHHRC) in collaboration with Georgia Southern University (GSU) Libraries and the GSU Department of History will undertake phase two of a collection digitization project focused on African American funeral programs in rural Bulloch County, GA. The project will support the salaries of two paid student interns and one full-time collection manager. Project activities include outreach, training, and retention of community volunteers, improving the quality of the images displayed online and the development of collection-finding aids. The project's intended results are to increase the production of digitized records, ensure accessibility, improve record standards by reducing error introduction, de-duplicate the collection, improve image quality, and recruit and retain volunteers for the digitization work.