As a fraternity historian, I know the importance of tracking an organization's history and securing if for future generations. The older the organization, of course, the more history. In today's electronic age, fraternities and sororities need to find ways to computerize years of history that may only exist in hard copy formats. The history of large organizations can fill volumes in a library and this valued information should be safely stored and if necessary it should be easily transferable from one location to another.
My organization is small but we have been scanning historical documents for years. Older alumni and past historians still possess old fraternity albums, event programs, and other documents, but these items do not yet exist electronically. We hope to one day have everything converted, however digitizing massive hard copy historical documents takes a huge amount of time and effort.
For large organizations with greater financial resources, outsourcing the process of converting historical documents and images makes sense. Sigma Chi Fraternity is one of the national organizations the leads the way in digitizing its history. I am sure more fraternities and sororities will seriously consider taking this step, if they have not done so already.
A company that can assist fraternities and sororities with the work of digitizing history is Digital Conversion Solutions, a division of a company with an unsurpassed history of excellence by delivering services to some of
the largest and most prestigious cultural heritage institutions in the
country.
Everything it our present time is going digital, so why not the history of individual organizations that make up the greater fraternity/sorority movement? If your organization has experience with this subject, please feel free to leave a comment below.
"You don't know where you're going until you know where you have been."
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