Digitizing on a Big Scale: the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt

At the occasion of the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation collaborated with the Digital Scholarship Lab to create a new digital reproduction of the University of Rochester’s NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt. The 12’x12′ panel includes notes, tributes, and signatures collected in April 1994, when the national AIDS quilt …