Digitizing Your Community's History
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Digitizing Your Community's History

The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Alex Hoffman

  1. 150 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Digitizing Your Community's History

The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Alex Hoffman

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About This Book

Follow the blueprint in this book to launch a library DIY community history digitization program—one that provides the access and fosters engagement with patrons to sustain the program over time. Internet technologies have enabled anyone to tell their story—and to find out their own unknown story. Libraries are seeing increased interest in community and family history and in genealogy, as well as heightened demand for access to personal and community history materials in digital format. The opportunity exists for libraries to benefit their communities by providing these in-demand, digitized historical materials optimized for researchers at the individual level. Digitizing Your Community's History: The Innovative Librarian's Guide provides you with step-by-step directions for launching a DIY digitization program for personal and community historical materials. It covers the process of setting up a digitization program, training customers to use the equipment, best practices for storing digitized material, and tips for engaging the community in local history, such as ideas for exhibiting materials and programs for genealogy and family history. Just as importantly, the author addresses how to explain the benefits of programs like these to library stakeholders and supplies recommendations on sustaining library community history programs through access and engagement. The book also provides supplemental materials that include templates and programming ideas, lists of recommended software and apps, and recommended specifications for equipment and for file storage.

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Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Year
2016
ISBN
9781440842412
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Library & Information Science
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 The Basics
  8. Chapter 2 Getting Started
  9. Chapter 3 What to Digitize
  10. Chapter 4 The Equipment
  11. Chapter 5 The Digitization Process
  12. Chapter 6 Storage and Backups
  13. Chapter 7 Tech Instruction
  14. Chapter 8 Programs, Display, and Access
  15. Chapter 9 The Future of Digitization
  16. Chapter 10 Review
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
Citation styles for Digitizing Your Community's History

APA 6 Citation

Hoffman, A. (2016). Digitizing Your Community’s History (1st ed.). Libraries Unlimited. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/4169630 (Original work published 2016)

Chicago Citation

Hoffman, Alex. (2016) 2016. Digitizing Your Community’s History. 1st ed. Libraries Unlimited. https://www.perlego.com/book/4169630.

Harvard Citation

Hoffman, A. (2016) Digitizing Your Community’s History. 1st edn. Libraries Unlimited. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/4169630 (Accessed: 24 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Hoffman, Alex. Digitizing Your Community’s History. 1st ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2016. Web. 24 June 2024.