WKU Libraries: Using PastPerfect to Open Hidden Collections

Traditionally, access records for the Department of Special Collections were produced in analog forms which limited their use to in-house researchers. The author chronicles the library/museum decision to purchase, PastPerfect, collection management software and reviews the product from a librarian’s point of vie

Purchasing Storage Furniture to Rehouse and Make Collections Accessible

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) seeks NEH support in the preservation of its humanities collections following a natural disaster by purchasing and installing new storage furniture and environmental and light monitoring equipment, creation of an Integrated Pest Management System, moving the artifact and library collections to a new museum and library currently under construction, and restoring and updating documentation and cataloging of the artifact and library collections

Final Performance Report

ArkansasThe goal of the project is to get a basic understanding of the condition of physical collections throughout the state while providing free basic preservation training for those responsible for collections.Institute of Museum and Library Service

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University of Iowa Department of Anesthesia newsletter

Planning for "The Greatest Digitization Project on Earth" with the P. T. Barnum Collections of The Barnum Museum Foundation

The Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc. requests a grant of $40,000 that will enable The Barnum Museum and Bridgeport Public Library to work with a team of consultants to create a comprehensive plan for digitization and global access to important humanities collections. The year-long project is designed to result in the ???road map??? critical to implementing a well-managed digitization project that can fully realize its objectives for preservation and access. The project will improve intellectual control of the two institutions??? related P. T. Barnum collections, and incorporate a range of activities that utilize the knowledge, experience and expertise of the team members. The project will lead to a plan for broad access to these significant humanities resources and create digital content that would be placed in an aggregate digital resource repository with a curated platform

Cultural Summit II Work Book

OklahomaFeasibility study sInstitute of Museum and Library Service

Una solució del problema de les dates

The goal of this paper is to analyze the role of dates (expressions of the type "in 1437") in the sentence. Our analysis claims that tense should be viewed as involving quantification over intervals. If this is the case, tense provides the sentence with a temporal variable, which can be modified by a date. So the clause of FI concerning dates says that they must modify a temporal variable

The Nottingham Settlement, a North Carolina Backcountry Community

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)In the 1750s, a group of Scots-Irish families migrated from southeastern Pennsylvania to central North Carolina and became known to local historians as The Nottingham Settlement. To determine the motivation behind members' migration to and settlement in present-day Guilford County, I propose that factors used to identify the Settlement, such as proximity, society, culture and religion, establish a model for North Carolina's backcountry communities in the mid-eighteenth century. Relying on methods employed in similar backcountry community studies to explore extant source materials for this specific set of colonists, the study provides local and family historians with an in-depth view of the lives of those associated with the Settlement as well as others residing nearby in colonial Guilford County

Free software evaluation for administrative archives management

Se evalúan tres aplicaciones de software libre de gestión de archivos administrativos para su implantación en el archivo de una universidad: Archon, Archivists' toolkit e ICA-AtoM. En la comparativa se tuvieron en cuenta doce requisitos concernientes a la gestión de metadatos, normas de descripción y préstamo, análisis y ciclo de vida del documento. Los resultados indican si el software posee determinadas características. Las aplicaciones analizadas no cumplen con todos los requisitos de un gestor de archivos, no obstante como software libre permiten la actualización e integración a nuevos contextosWe evaluated three free software applications for administrative archives management and their implementation in university archives. Software evaluated was: Archon, Archivists’ toolkit and ICA-AtoM. The comparative analysis considered 12 requirements concerning metadata management, description standards and lending, and document life-cycle analysis. The results show the requirements met by each software application evaluated. Although currently they do not satisfy all archive management requirements, open software can be customized and integrated with new contexts