{"id":12722,"date":"2024-09-27T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=12722"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:23:53","slug":"purdue-university-archives-and-special-collections-announces-digitization-of-neil-armstrongs-paper-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/purdue-university-archives-and-special-collections-announces-digitization-of-neil-armstrongs-paper-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue University Archives and Special Collections announces digitization of Neil Armstrong\u2019s paper speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.\u2014Purdue University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is pleased to announce the digitization of paper transcripts used by Neil Armstrong for his public addresses and select speeches. The nearly 500 transcripts\u2014totaling 7,700 pages\u2014were generously donated by his wife, Carol Armstrong, in 2011. The speeches are available for public viewing, text-searchable, and accessible on Purdue\u2019s online archives platform, e-Archives.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speeches are annotated by Armstrong with comments, quips, and jokes, or with arrows in the margins suggesting changes to word or phrase order. Jo Otremba, Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration and clinical assistant professor at Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies, said Armstrong frequently added information that provides readers with additional context of the speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe often added notes on the speeches sharing the date and location the speech was given, which is an interesting feature for the readers to consider,\u201d Otremba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the most notable speeches were given at Purdue University events such as the dedication of Grissom and Chaffee Halls and Armstrong’s acceptance of an honorary doctorate degree in 1970. The halls are named after two Purdue astronauts who both lost their lives in a NASA pre-launch fire at Cape Kennedy in 1967\u2014the late Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and the second American to fly in space, and Roger B. Chaffee, a Navy pilot and NASA astronaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Neil Armstrong papers<\/a> continue to be one of the most accessed collections for research requests and instructional usage through ASC. Increasing ease of access to the archival collection through digitization has been a goal since the acquisition of the speeches in 2011. Work to digitize the speeches, funded by the Purdue Research Foundation and Carol Armstrong, began in 2022. The digitization process itself is lengthy and requires that each speech be described, vetted for third-party copyright, and uploaded to e-Archives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis project highlights the continuous effort required to make these resources accessible, and it\u2019s wonderful to celebrate the speeches\u2019 public availability through our e-Archives,\u201d said Otremba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building this digital collection would not have been achieved without the detailed and steady collaboration between ASC\u2019s Otremba; graduate assistant Camryn Beeman; Neal Harmeyer, Archivist for Digital Collections and Initiatives, Interim Head of Archives and Special Collections, and clinical associate professor; Sammie Morris, former Head of Archives and Special Collections and former director of the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center; and members of Purdue Libraries\u2019 Digital Programs team\u2014Cliff Harrison, operations manager; M Lewis, digital collections photography assistant; and Samuel Wilson, digitization project assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purdue University Archives and Special Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, housed within Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, aims to support the discovery, learning, and engagement goals of Purdue University by identifying, collecting, preserving, and making available research records and papers of enduring value created or received by the university and its employees.
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To learn more, visit lib.purdue.edu\/spcol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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