Local History Interest Group Meeting - Friday, September 30, 2016

Digitizing PLS microfilm

PLS has money dedicated to digitize PLS member libraries' microfilm. We have a budget, a list of candidate titles/reels, and quotes for digitization. Our total number of reels surpass our budget, so we need to prioritize our list and decide what we want to do.

• Digitization Proposal
• Digitization List, 9/2016

File naming for NY Historic Newspapers

Follow up on inventories

Using print collections in conjunction with Ancestry?

For example : Catalogue of Revolutionary war pension and bounty-land-warrant application files ; American Revolutionary war service records and general index

http://evergreen.owwl.org/eg/opac/record/273178

Ancestry.com New York

FREE access for New York residents to some sub-set of Ancestry content: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/research/res_ancestry.shtml

Limited to just NYS records (so less then our system subscription) but a possible option for at-home use. Some weird quirks related to access to content and creating "free personal accounts".

Let's learn about the New York State Archives

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Grant opportunities

• http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/archival.html
• http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/national-digital-newspaper-program

County Working groups

Next steps, what do we want to accomplish?, how?

Defining what constitutes "local history collections" in our libraries

Other…

• http://owwl.org/local-history-genealogy - in progress resources page