[Genealib] Scanning Parties at Your Library

[Local History]

An historic house museum owned by the City of Holyoke, MA has been doing a program similar to this and it has been a success.  See the description below.   The curator there  is Kate Navarra Thibodeau kate at wistariahurst.org  or Phone: 413-322-5660 

Julie H. Bartlett
Archivist
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum 
Hampshire Room for Local History
Forbes Library 
20 West St. 
Northampton, MA  01060
(413) 587-1014
jbartlett at forbeslibrary.org

Digital Preservation Project 



    In an effort to collect and preserve photos of the city's past, Wistariahurst will host ongoing Share Your Old Photographs sessions. Wistariahurst Museum is currently seeking images of Holyoke's people and places for ongoing documentation and digitization of Holyoke's rich history. Share your old photographs of Holyoke's past, both faces and places of the city. While there is a large collection of the city's landscapes and building structures, very few records reveal images of men, women and children and their activities. We are looking for old family photos and pictures of Holyoke employees (mill workers, store employees, etc.). Contribute your photos for this digital project and for $1 we will send you home with your originals along with digital copies for preservation. We invite you to stop in between the hours of 4:00 pm and 6:00 on the first Wednesday of each month, directly before our Historical Perspectives Lecture. Series. Please check your local listings or the Calendar for this exciting new project!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Danielle Plumer 
  To: Librarians Serving Genealogists 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:18 PM
  Subject: RE: [Genealib] Scanning Parties at Your Library


  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) 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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