Office of Marketing and Communications, WSU Vancouver; Digital Photographs, 2009-present.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains digital images (mostly in JPEG format) of WSU Vancouver events. The bulk of the photographs are from a date range between 2009 and the present. The images are created for the primary purpose of mraketing and promoting the accomplishments and activities of members of the campus community. Common themes in the collection cover commencement, Cougs in Community, the annual Research Showcase, featured activities from the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), Registration, Orientation, Advising and Resources (ROAR), Women of Distinction, and annual photo shoots of campus scenes, groups, and individuals. Additionally, the collection features unique events and programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus. These include activities sponsored by Building a Community of Equity (BaCE), the Council of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice (CSEJ), and student organizations that highlight Diwali, the Chinese Lunar New Year, Juneteenth, the Transgender Day of Rememberance, Veterans Day, and several other holidays and days of rememberance.
Dates
- 2009-present
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is primarily established for the purposes of preservation. For more information see the collection's abstract. Primary access to collection images can be found on the current WSU Vancouver filckr social media account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsuvancouver/albums
Conditions Governing Use
Images from the collection can be found on the WSU Vancouver filckr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsuvancouver/albums
The images are open for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Washington State University Vancouver was established in 1989 as a branch campus of the state's land-grant institution. During the first few years of operation, classes were held in Bauer Hall at Clark College offering upper-division undergraduate courses and graduate level courses. In 1996, the university moved to a newly constructed campus at its current location in Salmon Creek. Over the next decade the campus grew exponentially with increasing enrollment and the addition of serveral new buildings including the Multi-media Classroom Building and the Science and Engineering Building. In 2006, WSU Vancouver began offering lower-division level courses and welcomed its first freshman class.
The Office of Marketing and Communications began highlighting WSU Vancouver activities, events, and accomplishments of groups and individuals through its flickr social media account in 2009. The photographic images document an increase of student participation and changes in the campus community since WSU Vancouver's transition to a four-year university.
Extent
363 Gigabytes (546 folders containing approximately 34,575 digital objects captured in the JPG or PNG format.) : Digital photographs.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains digital photographs from WSU Vancouver's Office of Marketing and Communications. The photographs were originally part of a flickr social media account established for the campus. The images document activities and events on campus between 2009 to the present. There are over 34,000 digital images in this collection. Most images have been captured in JPEG format with fewer than 30 images in the PNG format. The transfer of these images is intended as a preservation backup measure with the anticipation for access and use as the demand for social media and digital platforms fade or as featured images transition into different formats.
Arrangement
The collection is assembled from albums stored in WSU Vancouver's flickr social media account. These were captured and organized as groups of images in a series arranged by year starting with 2009. Subsequent folders within each series directory contain the images highlighted for each year, arranged alphabetically by the original title of the album appearing in the flickr account. A few photographs are either undated or from years prior to 2009. Many of these can be found in the Miscellaneous series of the collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The capturing of images from WSU Vancouver's flickr account began in 2021 with the assistance from the Office of Marketing and Communications. The collection was originally accessioned as UA-WSUV-2021-001.
Accruals
The collection is an accural. Images featured in WSU Vancouver's flickr account will continue to be captured for deposit in the Office of Marketing and Communications, WSU Vancouver; Digital Photographs Collection (Archives.DR.031) within Archives and Special Collections on an annual basis.
- Title
- Office of Marketing and Communications, WSU Vancouver; Digital Photographs.
- Subtitle
- 2009-2024
- Author
- Robert Schimelpfenig
- Date
- March 20, 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository