THE STORY OF KAPPA ALPHA PSI
Left: Co-author Aaron Williams donating a copy of The Story of Kappa Alpha Psi, 6th Edition to Morehouse College. Dean and Archivist Lawrence E. Carter received the book on behalf of the school. They are joined by other Morehouse and Kappa alumni. Top: The Gamma Kappa Chapter donating the 6th Edition to Amber Moore, Head of Archives Processing at The Woodruff Library. libraries, Grand Historian Scott and Williams plan to make the electronic version available for libraries to acquire for their respective collections in 2024. Placing our e-book into libraries will be a first for a D9 organization. Libraries primarily acquired e-books from a network of book distributors. “The Fraternity must make the e-book available to these book distributors. Once a library selects our e-book for its collection, patrons can check out our e-book from its electronic bookshelf. For each checkout, the Fraternity receives a small royalty payment. Once we make the e-book available, our next challenge is to raise awareness among library curators, especially those with Black American literary collections, to acquire The Story ,” emphasized Brother Williams, on the importance of the initiative. ♦
Collections of the Robert W. Wood- ruff Library. The Woodruff Library serves all schools within the Atlanta University Center (Morehouse, CAU, Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and the Interdenominational Theological Seminary. Gamma Kappa Polemarch Lamin Secka (Gamma Kappa 2022) coordinated with Ms. Tiffany Atwater Lee, Head Research Services, Archives Research Center of Woodruff Library. Brother Polemarch Secka is the CAU Undergraduate Student Government Association President and Fourth-Year Scholar Fashion Merchandising/Design student from Lithia Springs, GA. Polemarch Secka and the other Gamma Kappa members presented the book and took a photo with the Head of Processing at the Archives, Ms. Amber Moore. After the donation, Gamma Kappa
members visited the Woodruff Library’s archival materials on Kappa Alpha Psi. One item with which many were captivated was an original pro- gram for the Southeastern Provincial Council hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, November 22-24, 1948. The Frater- nity chartered Gamma Kappa at that Southeastern Province Council with the Grand Polemarch at the time, J. Ernest Wilkins Sr., presiding over the chartering ceremonies. In addition to the 6th Edition , the Robert W. Woodruff Library has the first (1967) and fifth (2003) editions of The Story of Kappa Alpha Psi and The Pi Chapter Centennial History Book (2021) in its Special Collections.
ELECTRONIC BOOK TO LIBRARIES
In addition to efforts to get the hard- cover version into public and collegiate
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