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The Geology Program has formal book, fossil, journal, map, mineral, and rock collections dating to the 1950’s. These specimens were donated by biological and physical sciences faculty prior to the 1960 hire of Dr. John Philley and greatly expanded upon by Drs. Philley, James Chaplin, Jules DuBar, and H.W. Straley III through the 1990’s. Prior to construction of the “C-wing” of Lappin Hall, the collections previously housed in laboratory classrooms in the path of the new corridor connecting the “B-wing” and “Cwing”, as well as those housed in the “A-wing” were boxed and stored in multiple temporary locations until new construction and renovation of the Awing were completed in 1997. Some were then unboxed and placed in the new specimen archive in room 413, while others were moved to the “A-wing” attic. Tidying of materials stored in the attic between January 2017 and March 2020 revealed that the state of collection maintenance was complete disarray. The original card catalog was re-located (Figure 1) and digitized in March-May 2020. Beginning in May 2022, a concerted effort began to organize materials in the collections and lay the foundation for submission of a collection's improvement grant to support proper collections storage and maintenance. The 2024-2025 academic year has been focused on two goals. 1) Condensing the attic collection, including organization of surplus research articles, books, and other paper materials. 2) Digitizing the fossil catalog in preparation for reduction into teaching kits. Through this process, numerous problems have
Publication Date
4-16-2025
Disciplines
Higher Education | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Recommended Citation
Fluharty, Ava; Lennex-Stone, June; Turner, Shelby; and O'Keefe, Jennifer, "The Dawn of a New Lappin: The Revision and Reorganization of The Morehead State Archives" (2025). 2025 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations. 75.
https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2025/75