Author: dcwpadmin
A Sweet Deal for Public Libraries
By Harold Smith If you work at a public library, especially if you work at a small library where opportunities for collaboration are rare and money for new projects is even rarer, then you should read about this opportunity that is now available. Here’s the deal in a nutshell. If you have an unprocessed collection,…
Lyon (no tigers!), but METADATA? – Oh My!
First Parish in Brookline (FPB) Archives Project to bring 300 years of history out of the woods… by Elizabeth Cousins, Archivist, First Parish in Brookline Chapter One: First Steps on the “road of yellow bricks.” Lyon Chapel at FPB, named after William Henry Lyon, Sixth Minister, is a lovely space where spirits are moved,…
3 Breakout Session Reports from the 2014 Annual Conference
Developing a Born-Digital Preservation Workflow Presenters: Bill Donovan and Jack Kearney, Boston College Our presenters described the workflow followed to access records on an external hard drive included in the personal papers of Irish soprano and harpist Mary O’Hara, their first dive into the sea of digital preservation. They described how workflows start as baseline…