{"id":48366,"date":"2017-10-06T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=48366"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:49:38","slug":"ddn-story-wright-state-launches-6-5-million-campaign-for-new-archives-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/10\/06\/ddn-story-wright-state-launches-6-5-million-campaign-for-new-archives-center\/","title":{"rendered":"DDN story: Wright State launches $6.5 million campaign for new archives center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wright State launched a $6.5 million fundraising campaign to create the Wright State University Archives Center to house the Special Collections and Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University has announced a $6.5 million fund raising campaign to create a new home for its historical archives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amanda Wright Lane, great grandniece of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough will chair the campaign, said President Cheryl Schrader during a WSU board meeting Friday.<\/p>\n

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With the\u00a0Discover Your Story<\/a>\u00a0campaign, Wright State will seek to transform the former corporate headquarters of the Wright-Patt Credit Union at 2455 Presidential Drive into the new home of the university\u2019s Special Collections and Archives, according to the school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wright State\u2019s archives contains the largest Wright Brothers Collection in the world, first-edition works by Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and the archives of the Dayton Daily News among other historic archives, according to WSU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Artist rendering of part of the reading room and help desk.<\/p><\/div>\n

The new archives center will be solely funded by donations because of the university\u2019s ongoing financial struggles, Schrader said. The university slashed $30.8 million from its fiscal year 2018 budget in June in an attempt to begin correcting years of overspending.<\/p>\n

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The proposed archives center will include the following amenities, according to the university:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 A reading room where students, scholars and visitors may examine historic materials in an up-close and personal way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 An exhibit gallery housing rotating exhibitions that highlight the depth and breadth of Wright State\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 A conference room for lectures, meetings and special events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 A classroom to welcome area school children and students from Wright State\u2019s public history graduate program.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 An oral history recording and teaching lab where students, faculty, researchers and the community can record their stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 A media lab for listening and viewing oral histories and watching original film footage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 A preservation lab, processing room, clean room and exhibit prep room that will give staff the tools and space they need to adequately care for the history of the Dayton region.<\/p>\n

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