Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: BASICS
1. Band-Aids and Superglue for the Cash-Strapped Local
History Librarian, Chad Leinaweaver
2. Basic In-House Book and Paper Repair, Karen E.K Brown
3. Emergency Preparedness, Dyani Feige
4. You Can't Keep It All, Rochelle LeMaster
PART II: NEWSPAPERS
5. Balancing Selection and Digitization: Selecting 19th and
Early-20th Century Newspaper Titles for Online Access, Athena
Jackson
6. Indexing your Local Newspapers on Microfilm, Kelly
Zackmann
7. Newspaper Preservation in Developing Countries: Issues and
Strategies for Intervention, Goodluck Israel Ifijeh
PART III: SCRAPBOOKS
8. How to Get Scrapbooks Into the Hands of Users, Anastasia
Weigle
9. Keeping Scrapbooks Secure and Available, Erin Foley
10. Physical Properties of Scrapbooks, Jennifer Hain
Teper
PART IV: LOCAL HISTORY
11. Creating Local History Development Guidelines, William
Helling
12. Keeping a Past: Preservation Issues in Local History,
Nancy Richey
13. Minimizing Privacy and Copyright Concerns with Online
Local History Collections, David Gwynn
14. Lavaca County Records Retention Project, Brenda Lincke
Fisseler
15. Managing Archives in Local History Collections, Sarah
Welland
PART V: GENEALOGY
16. Partnering with Local Genealogical Societies, Lisa Fraser
17. Patron Driven Family History Preservation, Howard C. Bybee
PART VI: PHOTOGRAPHS
18. Collecting and Preserving Photographic Materials, Amanda
Drost
19. Organizing and Indexing Photo Collections, Rose
Fortier
20. Photograph Selection, Access, and Preservation for the
Public Librarian, Rebekah Tabah
PART VII: DIGITAL
21. Digital Preservation of the Emilie Davis Diaries, Alexia
Hudson
22. Preserving and “Publishing” Local Biographies, Elizabeth
B. Cooksey
23. Promoting Local History through the Catablog, Cyndi
Harbeson
24. Reinventing the Obituary File for the Digital Age, Kerry
FitzGerald
PART VIIII: ORAL HISTORIES
25. Preserving Born-Digital Oral Histories, Juliana
Nykolaiszyn
26. Preserving Indiana Women's Voices: a University Oral
History Project, Theresa McDevitt
27. Steps in Preserving Oral Histories, Suellyn Lathrop
PART IX: APPROACHES TO PRESERVATION
28. Affiliation Agreements, Tomaro Taylor
29. Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures
Today, Jessica Phillips
30. Historical Sheet Music Collections: Practical Wisdom,
Racial Sensitivity, Karl Madden
31. Tracing History Through Non-Traditional Methods, Emily
Griffin
Afterword
Contributors
Index
Carol Smallwood has worked as a public library systems
administrator and consultant, and in school, academic, and special
libraries. She has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited
several books, including Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's
Handbook (2010), Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach
Handbook (2010), and How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian (Scarecrow,
2011). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including
American Libraries.
Elaine S. Williams is branch manager and youth librarian at the
Lynchburg (Ohio) Branch of the Highland County District Library.
Her writing has appeared in Librarians as Community Partners (ALA,
2010) and A Cup of Comfort for Fathers (Adams Media, 2010). She is
a member of the Lynchburg Historical Society and the Ohio Library
Council, Southwest Chapter.
Smallwood (How To Thrive as a Solo Librarian) and Williams
(Highland County District Library; Librarians as Community
Partners) present writings created specifically for this volume,
addressing the preservation issues that “custodians of history”
face in local communities. From traditional methods of paper and
photographic conservation to the burgeoning field of digital
preservation, the 33 contributors provide a thorough manual for
those just starting in the discipline and for professionals wanting
to branch out into a different area. The volume focuses on
important concerns like preserving collections on stringent budgets
and how to best promote them once acquired. Some pieces delve into
the specifics of successful preservation projects, with personal
observations, retrospective comments, and lessons learned.
Especially poignant is Alexia Hudson’s essay on the Emily Davis
Preservation Project, which digitized the journals of a free black
woman writing during the Civil War. Each author’s piece has its own
style and methodology, which results in some inconsistencies
overall regarding bibliographic references and presence or absence
of source notes. This will be detrimental to readers. VERDICT This
collection of practical how-to essays, complete with charts,
diagrams, sample proposal letters, policies, and best practices, is
a must-have tool for historical societies, museums, libraries, and
archivists.
*Library Journal*
For librarians who aren’t sure how to tackle the photographs,
scrapbooks, oral histories, and other materials tied to their
community’s history, editors Smallwood (The Frugal Librarian, 2011)
and Williams have compiled a crash course in evaluating and
preserving local-history resources. In this anthology, 33 librarian
and archivist contributors share their experiences in articles
covering topics from low-budget book repair to large-scale
newspaper digitization. With some overlap, they discuss deciding
what to preserve; caring for fragile materials; scanning,
organizing, and indexing collections; and storing and migrating
digital files. Also considered are legal issues related to privacy
and copyright and crafting partnerships with genealogical
societies. Specific case studies include preparing newspaper and
obituary indexes and digitizing nineteenth-century diaries. Written
for the librarian and the layperson, most of the book’s articles
list further resources, and many provide sample policies,
permissions, or partnership agreements. A useful resource for
libraries or groups engaged in preserving and promoting local
history. Public libraries with active community local-history
groups may want to consider a circulating copy.
*Booklist*
Edited by a former public library systems administrator and
consultant and former school, academic and special librarian, along
with the branch manager and youth librarian at the Lynchburg (Ohio)
Branch of the Highland County District Library, this work presents
31 chapters organized into 9 sections. Whether one is interested in
the basics of special collections of local history materials,
specific materials (such as newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs, or
oral histories), types of services and sources (such as local
history and digital), or preservation there is a chapter of use for
any type of collection. The writings include case studies of
specific situations and more general topics, such as affiliation
agreements, organizing and indexing photograph collections,
copyright, and indexing local newspapers. Students of public
history, archives, and preservation will all benefit from this
knowledge, as will practicing archivists and preservationists as
well as librarians working with special collections of nonprint
materials used for genealogy such as photographs, newspapers, and
related materials. The 33 contributors from around the world,
including Nigeria and Canada, bring experience from academic,
public, and special libraries, and offer their expertise and
knowledge in an approachable manner for any researcher or
practitioner of public history in any form that requires looking
beyond the traditional print materials.
*American Reference Books Annual*
Professional librarians, archivists, and preservation specialists
contribute chapters addressing current challenges in preserving,
managing, and digitizing local historical documents and related
library materials. Practical how-to essays cover topics such as the
physical preservation of materials ranging from newspapers and
scrapbooks to photographs and oral histories, collection management
under stringent budgets, and successful joint ventures with
community groups and other organizations.
*Missouri Historical Review*
The editors recruited thirty-three practicing professionals to
write thirty-one independent but related chapters and added a
foreward, introduction, and afterword to provide context. ...
Overall, the essays are short, focused, and clearly written, the
information is logically presented, the notes include both printed
and electronic resources for gathering information, and the volume
index is reasonable. . . . [I]t is something an archivist can
suggest as a resource when helping someone without professional
training who has responsibility for preserving archival and library
collections.
*The American Archivist*
This work serves as a readable reference work, a beginner’s guide,
and a thought-provoking introduction to things to come. . . .The
amount of useful advice contained in these so few words and pages
is . . . staggering!
*Journal of Archival Organization*
Consider it a crash course in local history preservation. If I had
access to Preserving Local Writers years ago, I might have even
gotten that archivist job I once applied for.
*Nancy Kalikow Maxwell, Author of Library Grant Collaboration: How
Libraries Can Benefit From Other People’s Money*
From glue to Google, Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy,
Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials guides the local
history librarian through development policy creation to
alternative research strategies, all the way to techniques for
curating the resulting collection. This anthology is a must-read
not only for librarians, but also for historical society members
and municipal archivists.
*Sandra Cortese, Jonathan Bourne Public Library*
Preserving Local History draws from a wide range of contributors on
a variety of useful subjects. Resources like this generally prove
valuable to those who need a quick 'go-to' for local history
ideas.
*Catherine Wilson, Executive Director, Greene County Ohio
Historical Society; author of Historic Greene County*
As a guidebook for library workers and the interested public,
Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and
Related Materials will be indispensable. Laying the necessary
groundwork but going well beyond the basics, this book is a must
for anyone interested in developing local or personal
histories.
*Greg MacAyeal, Assistant head, Nonwestern University Music
Library*
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