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September 28, 2005

Illinois Humanities Council Grants

My fellower NSLS blogger, Sharon Ball, just posted in the School Library Survival Guide blog the fact that IHC is offering mini-grants. Run, don’t walk over there and take a look!

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September 21, 2005

Race Relations 1924-1927

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives has made their Survey of Race Relations 1924-1927 available on-line. These are original records and include the report, correspondance, questionnaires, etc. The site also lays out the history of the survey as:

In the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make a complete investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among the Chinese, Japanese, and other non-white residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada. Extension of the study into northern Mexico and Hawaii was contemplated as well. In the words of Eliot G. Mears, Executive Secretary, “The Survey seeks to impose no program, advocates no specific policy, and champions no special interest. It aims to find the facts, and all the facts, and plans to make them accessible to the public.” The findings were to be published in a series of volumes edited by the director, Dr. Robert E. Park.

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NARA Releses Funds for Hurricane Hit Archives

One of the blogs I frequent is Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and today he mentions that NARA has released funds to help hurricane ravaged archives.

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September 20, 2005

Ship Found in Downtown San Francisco

So, here we get into some of the historical finds/information I may make available in this blog! This is interesting! While doing some digging for construction of a new building, in downtown San Francisco, they dug up a Gold Rush-era ship. Pretty Nifty, eh? Who knew? Makes you wonder what’s under your feet a little more often!

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September 19, 2005

Fantastic News!

LDS is planning on digitizing and indexing ALL 2 million rolls of microfilm they own. It will take a while, of course, the 1880 US Census took 12 years, but with newer technologies, this may go a bit faster. This will be fantastic for those who find getting to a Family History Center a bit difficult. For the full story…

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September 12, 2005

State of Cultural Institutions in Katrina’s Path

I’m sure you are, as I am, concerned about the welfare of people and animals first, but eventually I’m sure we all started wondering about the archives, museums, libraries in the Hurricane Katrina stricken areas. A fellow NSLS blogger passed along this summary from BoingBoing.

If you want to follow up on libraries in the affected region, you can visit ALA’s page.

For news on museums, I found this summary. The American Association of Museums also keeps an updated rundown of museums and cultural institutions on their page.

If you are interested in zoos, the American Zoological Society is putting info up on their site as well. Note that the coordinator for funds is Lincoln Park Zoo.

For those who have a real soft spot for Spot & Fluffy, like myself, you can keep up on news on pet rescue on Petfinder.org.

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Genealogist to the Rescue!

If you’re looking for a heartwarming story from the Gulf Coast, here’s one brought to you by a genealogist!

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September 7, 2005

CDM4 Upgrade News

To keep you updated on our conversion to CONTENTdm 4.0. We’ve been monitoring the CONTENTdm listserv to get an idea of what may/may not break. The reports we’ve been hearing is that since it is totally rebuilt (similar to the differences between Windows 98 and Windows XP), there are a lot of bugs. With the size of our installation, we can’t guarantee stability of CDM 4 yet. Digital Past is highly customized from the standard CDM installation to meet your needs (such as the customized searching capabilities). We will continue to monitor the situation and when things appear stable enough, we will proceed with the upgrade and keep you informed as to the progress. Please continue using version 3.7 of Acquisition Station. If you want more information on CONTENTdm 4.0 and the issues involved, please feel free to subscribe to the OCLC CONTENTdm listserv. Information about signing up for the listserv and accessing the listserv archives is available on the home page of the User Support Center.

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September 1, 2005

Cornell Repeating Digitization Classes

Cornell is offering their Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems this Fall and again next Spring. I’ve heard that it’s excellent and very technical.

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