9th Annual WML Academic Symposium

Presenter(s): Renazja Harris
Title: The Growth and Digitization of the Campbell University Herbarium
Developed under the guidance of Dr. J. Christopher Havran , College of Arts & Sciences

The Campbell University Herbarium was founded in 2011 in Harnett County, North Carolina on the border of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. The herbarium has actively grown through student collections and exchanges with national herbaria. Currently, the herbarium contains about 5,100 specimens. In 2017, the herbarium began digitizing through the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections. About 4,700 specimens were digitized in that winter. New specimens are transported to the North Carolina State University herbarium to be digitized by Campbell University research students. Student interest in the herbarium’s growth and digitization continues to fuel the enhancement of herbarium’s collections.