Angelique Paccione

Texas State University's Alkek Library will be digitizing one-and-a-half million photographic negatives for its archives. Bobcat Update's Angelique (Ang-el-eek) Paccione (patch-ee-oh-nee) has more.

SU: Alkek Library recently received a 25-thousand dollar grant to help the University Archives department digitize photographic negatives of San Marcos' development.
The San Marcos Daily Record donated almost one-million negatives dating back to 1930 to University Archives in January. Along with Texas State's negatives, there are about one and a half million negatives to produce. University Archivist Kris Toma says this year's focus will be processing the Daily Record's images.
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The grant helped the digital lab build its negative capture stations. The lab is also creating a new, faster scanning method that it will begin testing later this year. Once the project is completed, the digitized images will be available to students and the public on the university's archives Flickr account.
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Viewers will have the opportunity to comment on the pictures and help write history. The images capture San Marcos' growth from dirt roads through today.
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It will take several years for all the pictures to be available. For Bobcat Update, I'm Angelique Paccione.