Acknowledgements
This exhibit has the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from a grant administered by the Council of Library & Information Resources (CLIR), without which none of our work could have gone forward. The project Step Right Up: Digitizing Over 100 Years of Circus Route Books, was awarded full funding from CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Collections program in 2017.
We thank Pete Shrake at Circus World, Maureen Brunsdale and Dallas Long (Principal Investigator 2017-2020) at Illinois State University, and Heidi Connor, Ron Levere, and Deborah Walk at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for conceiving and organizing the grant project and for making the circus route books available for digitization. Digital Humanities projects are often the product of collaboration between faculty and both library and technical staff; our exhibit is no different. We thank Eric Willey (Associate Professor, Special Collections and Formats Cataloger), Rebecca Fitzsimmons (Assistant Professor, Special Collections Librarian), Pete Steadman (Metadata & Serials Coordinator), and Milner Library’s Information Technology department.
EXHIBIT PROJECT TEAM
Angela Yon - Principal Investigator (2020-2021) and Assistant Professor, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at Illinois State University
Elizabeth Harman - Digital Imaging and Metadata Specialist and holds a BA in photography and graphic design from Olivet Nazarene University
Elizabeth Hartman - Digital Project and Metadata Research Specialist and holds a MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Certified Archivist
Mariah Wahl - Digital Project and Metadata Research Specialist and holds a MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin
