[Genealib] Scanning Parties at Your Library

[Danielle Plumer]

Not quite the same thing, but the National Genealogical Society did a pilot of their Family Papers Collection project at Dallas a few years back. John Wylie from the Dallas Genealogical Society did a presentation at my 2006 Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative meeting on what they learned; his presentation is available at http://www.thdi.org/documents/THDI-Meeting2006-Wylie.pdf, but it doesn't give a lot of details about the project. You can contact John at john at johnwylie.com
 
Linda Reynolds at the East Texas Research Center at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches ( http://www.sfasu.edu/libweb/etrc/index.asp)  <http://www.sfasu.edu/libweb/etrc/index.asp) is> is also doing some work with community scanning; she did a presentation on this at the Society of Southwest Archivists meeting this summer. She mostly goes out to people's homes, though.
 
A similar project has been proposed in Houston by the Museum of Houston ( http://www.museumofhouston.org/), but I don't know if they've made definite plans.


Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us 

 

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu [mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of dlunow at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:50 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Scanning Parties at Your Library

 

We have not done that. 

BUT, WOW! What a great idea. Please let us know how it goes. I also would like to have email from anyone who has done it.

Thank you,
Diane Lunow
Stagecoach Library for Genealogical Research
585 County Road 1492
Wimberley, Texas 78676-5674


-----Original Message-----
From: May Chan <maychan at reginalibrary.ca>
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Sent: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 6:39 pm
Subject: [Genealib] Scanning Parties at Your Library

Hi,

 

My library is celebrating its centennial next year but we seem to keep recycling the same historic photos of the library for every major event.  I am hoping to make a call out into the community to see if we can gather additional photos of the library, staff, programs, etc. to use for our publicity next year.

 

Hence, I was wondering if any of you have ever hosted a scanning party at your library where you have invited members of the community to bring in their historic photographs so you can scan them, burned them onto a DVD and then uploaded copies of the images onto a photo-sharing website such as Flickr?  If so, could you please email me off the list with any advice you would like to share?  

 

Thank-you in advance for any assistance you can provide.

 

May

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May P. Chan
Prairie History and Genealogy Librarian
Regina Public Library
Tel: 306-777-6011
Email: maychan at reginalibrary.ca 

 

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