What Middletown Read is a database and search engine built upon the circulation records of the Muncie (Indiana) Public Library from November 5, 1891 through December 3, 1902. It provides evidence of reading experiences and print culture history. For more, see Felsentein and Connolly, What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (U. Massachusetts 2015). The project was a collaboration between the Muncie Public Library, the Center for Middletown Studies, and Ball State University Libraries.
Everyday Life in Middletown is a collaboration between Ball State and citizens of Muncie, Indiana, to record, represent, and discuss everyday life in our city. We do this in two ways: through day diaries, kept by volunteer writers who record their daily lives in detail and submit them to our archive, and through our blog, where we post commentary and discussion on everyday life in our community, including analysis of the diaries. Learn more about the project here. The project is directed by Patrick Collier (English) with support from the Center for Middletown Studies and the Digital Scholarship Lab.
Virtual World Heritage Ohio is an interactive virtual simulation of the prehistoric Newark Earthworks in Ohio. This ongoing project is a collaboration of the Applied Anthropology Lab, the Institute for Intermedia Arts, and the Ohio History Connection, with support and partnership from several federally recognized American Indian tribes, as well as Ball State’s Digital Scholarship Lab. It will simulate the earthworks in their era of construction and employ NASA data that allows users to view the stars, planets, moon, and sun as they appeared 2000 years ago.