The mission of the HBCU Digital Library Trust is to build capacity with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to digitally preserve and provide global access to their archival collections, sustain institutional, cultural, and community memory, and ensure stories are discovered, maintained, remembered and told.
For more information on the HBCU Digital Library Trust, contact Program Director, Andrea Jackson Gavin
With trust at the forefront, we acknowledge and celebrate the undeniable lived experiences and legacy of Black people by being the preeminent digital repository network of HBCU archival collections.
Celebrating the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities is a compilation of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes thousands of digital objects that represent HBCU libraries first collaborative effort to make a historic collection digitally available. Collections are contributed from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance. For use and permission to publish, please contact the individual organization. The collection includes photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, images of campus buildings, alumni letters, memorabilia, and programs from campus events, representing HBCUs as cultural, social, and political institutions from the early 1800s until today.
Below is a snapshot of the total page views of the HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection from 2017 - 2024. Use climbed steadily and peaked during the pandemic and then began increasing significantly after the start of the HBCU Digital Library Trust project in 2024. Use data is collected on a monthly basis for all collections using Google Analytics. 
