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Students walk over bridge at Lakeshore Technical Institute [Photograph]. (1985). Lakeshore College Archives. <\/em>https:\/\/content.mpl.org\/digital\/collection\/lakeshore\/id\/2890\/rec\/9<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n What is the idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n Idea Overview<\/em><\/p>\n This is an initiative to engage Lakeshore College students in preserving and sharing their own college experiences and history. This program will be run by the Lakeshore College Archives. The archive will provide students with a camera (either a digital camera or an instant camera with film) and a worksheet to fill out basic metadata information. The archive will partner with student organizations, and individual students can also participate. The students will donate the images to the archive, and archive staff will process the images for preservation and addition to the archive collection. The images will be made publicly available through the college\u2019s digital archive, with the student photographer listed as the material\u2019s creator. The archive will then print and frame student images to hang in the archive photo gallery located inside the college library. In collaboration with the student photographers, the archive will host a small exhibit opening party where the students can talk about their photographs. Additionally, throughout the course of the initiative, archive staff will present information literacy sessions related to researching in the college archive and managing personal digital files.<\/p>\n Archive photo gallery located in Lakeshore Library (own photo)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Project Goals <\/em><\/p>\n Description of Community<\/em><\/p>\n Lakeshore College is a rural technical college with a yearly enrollment of about 1,500 FTE (Lakeshore College, 2026). The college offers technical and associate degree programs. BIPOC students represent 22.86% of the student body (Lakeshore Technical College, 2022). This is a commuter college, and many students are adults balancing work, family, and school.<\/p>\n Who We Are Helping<\/em><\/p>\n Students will be the focus of this project, but the whole campus community will benefit from a more diverse representation in the archives.<\/p>\n How We Are Helping<\/em><\/p>\n Mission & Institutional Context<\/strong><\/p>\n The archive\u2019s mission is \u201cto collect, preserve, and make accessible materials that document the history of Lakeshore College and to serve as an educational resource to support research and learning\u201d (Lakeshore College Library, 2026). The archive serves Lakeshore students, staff, alumni, and external community members. The college archive is managed by library staff and is physically very small. All archival materials are stored on a few shelves within the library. The archive is relatively new. Historical materials that had been housed throughout campus were brought to the library and organized in 2022. A small digital archive was launched in 2023. Almost all the archival materials were produced and donated by college employees, particularly the marketing department, and there is very little representation of student created materials. Now that the archive has been set up, work is focused on collecting and preserving current materials that record college history. Due to the collection gap related to student produced materials, priority has been placed on student life related materials. The Archiving Student Life project will bring these missing voices to the archive and will allow students to share and document their own experiences.<\/p>\n Lakeshore College Archives (own photo)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Action Brief Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n Convince Lakeshore College students that by preserving and sharing records of their experiences at Lakeshore College they will contribute to a more complete and diverse college historical record which will create opportunities for research, engagement, and strengthening the campus community because the archive\u2019s mission is rooted in sharing college history and supporting learning.<\/p>\n Inspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n The literature shows there is a growing movement to acknowledge that \u201cstudent experience has long been poorly and selectively captured by university archives\u201d (Becker, 2017) and that only \u201ca small portion of archival holdings represent student-generated material\u201d (Buchanan & Richardson, 2012). These articles and case studies highlight efforts institutions have done to remedy this.<\/p>\n Guidelines & Policies<\/strong><\/p>\n Timeline for Implementation<\/strong><\/p>\n Planning is important when rolling out a new library service. The service should align with the library\u2019s mission, and all planning should be done with the user in mind. Communication is important as the plan needs to be promoted to stakeholders, and staff must buy into the plan. The plan also needs to be flexible to accommodate surprise challenges (Stephens, 2004).<\/p>\n Note. Infographic template created by <\/em>Pitstud<\/em><\/a> using <\/em>Canva<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Marketing & Promotion <\/strong><\/p>\n Staff Training & Readiness<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFUJIFILM INSTAX MINI<\/a>\u201d by ORANIT DORON is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Evaluation <\/strong><\/p>\n Future Expansion<\/strong><\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Becerra-Licha, S. (2017).\u00a0 Participatory and post-custodial archives as community practice<\/em>. Educause Review. https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2017\/10\/participatory-and-post-custodial-archives-as-community-practice<\/a><\/p>\n Becker, J. (2017). Bringing student voices into the university archives: A student organization documentation initiative case study.\u00a0In The Library With The Lead Pipe<\/em>, 205-24. https:\/\/www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org\/2017\/bringing-student-voices\/<\/a><\/p>\n Buchanan, S., & Richardson, K. (2012). Representation through documentation: Acquiring student and campus life records through the Bruin Archives Project. The American Archivist, 75<\/em>(1), 205-224. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17723\/aarc.75.1.e61061ul8701076u<\/a><\/p>\n Lakeshore College. (n.d.). Lakeshore College strategic plan scorecard<\/em>. https:\/\/lakeshore.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-04\/Lakeshore%20College%20Scorecard%20Worksheet%20-%202025-30.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Lakeshore College Archives. (n.d.). Lakeshore College Archives gift agreement<\/em>. https:\/\/lakeshore.libguides.com\/ld.php?content_id=75163184<\/a><\/p>\n Lakeshore College Archives. (2026). Lakeshore College Archives collection development policy. <\/em>https:\/\/lakeshore.libguides.com\/ld.php?content_id=83764268<\/a><\/p>\n Lakeshore College Library. (2026). Lakeshore College Archives<\/em>. https:\/\/lakeshore.libguides.com\/archives<\/a><\/p>\n Lakeshore Technical College. (2022, June). Equity report<\/em>. https:\/\/lakeshore.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/hr\/LTC-Equity-Report-2022-Final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Shaw, J. (2019, April 22). Introducing the archiving student life for the third century project and workshop. <\/em>University of Virginia Library. https:\/\/smallnotes.library.virginia.edu\/2019\/04\/22\/archiving_student_life\/<\/a><\/p>\n Stephens, M. (2004). Technoplans vs. technolust<\/em>. Tame the Web. https:\/\/tametheweb.com\/2004\/11\/01\/technoplans-vs-technolust\/<\/a><\/p>\n Stephens, M. (2008). Taming technolust: Ten steps for planning in a 2.0 world.<\/em> Tame the Web. https:\/\/tametheweb.com\/2012\/05\/30\/taming-technolust-ten-steps-for-planning-in-a-2-0-world-full-text\/<\/a><\/p>\n Stephens, M. (2025). The hyperlinked library: Participatory service & transparency<\/em> [Video]. The Hyperlinked Library. https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n Wells, R. (2025). Archiving student life at Iowa State University<\/em>. 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