Community Partnership
During 2009 the Digital Initiatives team received a $1000 grant from the MTSU Public Service Committee to assist several community associations with digital projects. Selected organizations were invited to propose projects; the first application received was from the Arts Center of Cannon County (ACCC). They had been given a collection of nearly 1000 photographs that were taken between 1944 and 1977 by William L. Clements, District Conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service (SCS). He served Cannon County, a small agricultural community just east of Murfreesboro and MTSU. The photos documented the farming methods that were disseminated by the SCS in that period. Significantly, each photo had descriptive information typed onto the image back, which made the task of describing each image quite easy