This document provides an overview of a digital archives research group at the University of Southern Mississippi that is working on developing a digital collection and archive related to the authors H.A. and Margret Rey, who wrote the popular Curious George children's books. The group consists of 9 faculty members from various departments. They discuss what an archive is and the potential topics, materials, and stories that could be included in a digital H.A. and Margret Rey collection. A timeline is also provided outlining drafts and deadlines for the project.

3. Craig Carey, Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of
Undergraduate Studies
Joyce Inman, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition
Andrew P. Haley, Associate Professor of American Cultural History
Jeanne L. Gillespie, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Jennifer Brannock, Associate Professor and Curator of Rare Books and
Mississippiana
Elizabeth Le Beaud, Digital Lab Manager, McCain Library and Archives
Diane DeCesare Ross, Assistant to the Dean for External Publications and
Digital Humanities
Kevin Greene, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Oral
History and Cultural Heritage
Digital Archives
Research Group

4. A collection of historical documents or
records providing information about a
place, institution, or group of people
What is an Archive?
The place where historical documents
or records are kept

5. Digital
Archives

6. “The archive does not tell stories;
only secondary narratives give
meaningful coherence to its
discontinuous elements.”
Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive

7. “This is George.”

17. Curious George Comes to Hattiesburg

18. H.A. & Margret Rey

20. Copyright & Trademark

21. Curious George Goes Digital?
What would it look like? What form would it take?
What would be possible? What story would you tell?

25. Archive Project

26. The Finding Aid

27. The Finding Aid

28. H.A. & Margret Rey Digital Collection

29. H.A. & Margret Rey Digital Collection

30. Studying Metadata

31. • H.A. Rey’s Personal Artwork
• Sketches and Sketchbooks
• Commercial Advertising Art
• Journals and Diaries
• New Years Cards
• Alternative Energy
• Margret’s Crafts & Pottery
• Children’s Book Editing
• Fan Mail
• Unpublished Works
(Nonsense ABC)
• Licensing and Merchandise
• Making of Curious George
Goes to the Hospital
• Astronomy and Constellations
Brainstorming Topics

32. Collaboration & Communication

33. Sept. 9 Classroom Visit to Special Collections
Oct. 5 Discuss the finding aid with your group
Oct. 21 Deadline for visiting special collections
Oct. 28 Written Pitch and Proposal of Exhibit Due
Nov. 9 Sketch, Outline, and Mockup Due
Nov. 18 Drafts of Written Sections Due
Nov. 23 Final Drafts and Presentations Due
Drafts & Deadlines

38. Theory of Colours (1810)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

39. The desire of knowledge is first stimulated in us
when remarkable phenomena attract our
attention. In order that this attention be
continued, it is necessary that we should feel
some interest in exercising it, and thus by
degrees we become better acquainted with the
object of our curiosity. During this process of
observation we remark at first only a vast variety
which presses indiscriminately on our view; we
are forced to separate, to distinguish, and again
to combine; by which means at last a certain
order arises which admits of being surveyed
with more or less satisfaction.
Goethe
“

41. Storage, Preservation, Sustainability