http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage Medievalist/Techie Kay Schlumpf, Project Manager at NSLS, sheds light on news and developments in genealogy, history and digitization. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it had to come around eventually! Blockbuster has teamed up with Home Movie Depot in 44 stores across the Midwest. Home Movie Depot will convert old home movies to DVD. Conversion can be done for 8 mm, Super 8 mm and 16 mm film and camcorder and VHS tapes. ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/08/blockbuster-offers-movie-digitization/ Today the horrific news that the Swan's Island Library near Bangor, Maine burned to the ground after being struck by lightening.  It was a small library, about 10,000 books, but also housed a lot of the local history collections for the community. Items that were lost included: Photographs, letters, journals, toys ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/07/a-reason-to-digitize/ It's been a long time since I last wrote here and I do apologize! However, I have some great news concerning Digital Past! We've seen a lot of growth lately with the following new participants: Chicago Botanic Garden - Lenhardt Library Morton Arboretum - Sterling Morton Library Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield Zoo William ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/06/digital-past-news/ The Library of Congress has recently added over 79,000 pages of newspapers to their nearly half a million already up at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site. It represents 61 newspapers ranging from 1900-1910. http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/03/79000-newspaper-pages-online/ I just ran across a very cool digitization site and for those who are as desperate to see Spring's Herald, the Robin, as I am it gives hope! The University of Pittsburgh has put up the entire set of Audubon's Birds of America, along with his Ornithological Biography. The plates ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/03/robins-i-want-to-see-robins/ That's right - the Library of Congress has put about 3000 images on Flickr and they are asking the general public to tag them From the few I looked at, it looks like it's been a popular pasttime! Of course, they have no known copyright restrictions so go for it! ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2008/01/library-of-congress-on-flickr/ In case you haven't heard, they're researching a "mummified" dinosaur found by a 17-year old out in North Dakota. "Dakota" is a hadrosaur, a plant-eater preyed on by T-Rex, and not an uncommon find. However, it is shaping up to be the most complete dinosaur ever found. They ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2007/12/amazing-dino-find/ There is an updated "Copyright Term and the Public Domain" map on the Cornell site. It includes audio-visual materials and sound recordings now. Necessary reference for anyone involved in digitization.... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2007/11/updated-copyright-term-map/ Last week the Genealogy & Local History Networking Group had the Family History Center coordinator for the 7-state area out to talk about what was going on with FamilySearch, the FHCs, etc. Part of the presentation was about FamilySearch Indexing which is a project YOU can become involved in. They ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2007/11/familysearch-indexing-project/ As promised, I found out the pricing for the printed bound heritage books you can make at Ancestry Press. A 24-page 8.5x11 book is $29.95 and each additional page costs 39 cents. Comparing that to Shutterfly, where I got my pet photo book, it's a little cheaper, especially if you ... http://blogs.nsls.info/heritage/2007/10/ancestry-press-update/