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MHCG: Planting the Seeds of the Green Revolution
by Joe Hoover
on April 3, 2012
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· in Digitization, Information Technology, MHCG, Podcast
On site review of the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants funded project with Elisabeth Kaplan, Head, University Archives & Co-Director, University Digital Conservancy, University of Minnesota Libraries. June 17, 2011. The University of Minnesota Libraries received funding support to digitize the records of the principals of the Green Revolution, the worldwide collaborative effort to expand food crop [...]
Modified image Wikimedia Commons. First let me admit this is not the last word on using an iPhone to record oral histories, it is just an attempt to get the dialog going, secondly you may notice the obvious omission of other mobile devices such as Android for use in recording. Omission does not mean that they shouldn’t [...]
Many historical Societies and archives find themselves with hundreds if not thousands of slides and negatives in their collections often with little or no description of what is on each of them. From a preservation standpoint color slides and negatives will suffer from deterioration over time, especially pre-1978 where slides and negatives which where made with [...]
Phone books call it a day
by David Grabitske
on November 13, 2010
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· in Collections, Digitization, Information Technology, Marketing
The St. Paul Pioneer Press for Friday November 12, 2010, printed an Associated Press article by Michael Felberbaum, “Familiar phone books dying in digital age.” As Internet penetration edges up in all parts of the state (see Electronic Access for Rural Minnesota), people rely on resources that are both more easily searched and perceived to [...]
Minnesota Historical Society is taking its newspaper collection into exciting new territory with multiple digitization efforts. The Society has been collecting and preserving newspapers throughout its history and the state’s history – it is the largest single collection of Minnesota newspapers with dates ranging from 1849 to the present day. To collect, preserve, and provide [...]
Vertically integrated all along
by David Grabitske
on December 2, 2009
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· in Collections, Digitization, Exhibits, Information Technology, Interpretation, Visitation
For decades business leaders have suggested that governments and nonprofits would do well to follow the example of business by becoming more specialized, flatter organizations. A recent Wall Street Journal blog talks about how some businesses are now reversing their decades old pursuit of specialization in favor of vertical integration: controlling raw materials, manufacturing, and distribution. [...]
Offsite Data Storage
by David Grabitske
on September 29, 2009
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· in Collections, Digitization, Information Technology, PastPerfect
McLeod County Historical Society uses Past Perfect Museum Software on its network computer system, like many small historical museums. In the last three years we have been adding a tremendous amount of digital media, i.e. photos and recordings, to the system. This has created some storage and backup problems for us. My board would like to explore the option of [...]
At the Minnesota Digital Library conference on June 8, 2009, we were reminded that the past is part of the future and preserving the past advances civilization. These are very good admonitions to remember about the usefulness of our work. Since MDL seeks to utilize advanced technology to preserve history, a “devil’s advocate” question occured to [...]
Evolution of Local History Websites
by David Grabitske
on May 12, 2009
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· in Digitization, Information Technology, Marketing, Nonprofit Issues
The Cokato Museum & Historical Society debuted its web site in the late summer of 1997. At the time, and to the best of our knowledge, only three other museums in the state had a presence on the web. A culmination of what seemed like months of planning, this event was met with little fanfare, [...]
Allowing Public Annotation
by David Grabitske
on November 12, 2008
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· in Collections, Digitization, Exhibits, Local History Standards
Recently the Grants Office fielded a call from a county historical society considering a grant for an exhibit that would include a SMART Board. That recalled to mind the wonderful and nationally award-winning exhibit “Eating Out in Clay County” and the Clay County Historical Society. For that exhibit staff included blank notebooks wherein a visitor [...]
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