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INTRODUCING CENTRAL NEW YORK HERITAGEHTTP://CNYHERITAGE.ORG
Bradley Shipps, Fayetteville Free Library, August 27, 2009
Agenda
Background: The CNYH partnership and project
Tour of CNY Heritage site Behind the scenes at FFL What’s next? Other New York 3R’s digital projects
The Partnership
CNYH is brought to you by a partnership of The Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC), Fayetteville Free Library (FFL), Liverpool Public Library (LPL), and Syracuse University Library (SUL).
What is CNY Heritage?
CNY Heritage is a digital repository dedicated to the cultural heritage of Onondaga, Oneida, Madison and Herkimer counties in upstate New York.More info: http://cnyheritage.org/cdm4/about.php
What is CNY Heritage?
CNYH runs on OCLC’s CONTENTdm® Digital Collection Management Software CLRC holds the software license Hosted on SUL server
The CLRC Digitization Committee chose to use Dublin Core metadata elements. The CNYH Metadata Style Guide can be
found here: http://elib.hamilton.edu:2008/hc/hcdocs/pdf/CNYHeritage-Metadata-Style-Guide.pdf
What is in CNY Heritage?
Pilot projects may include: Photographs Postcards Finding aids Flyers Letters Pamphlets
FFL’s Pilot Projects
Almquist Green Lakes CollectionArvin H. Almquist, pictured at right, was the original park superintendent of Green Lakes State Park. Almquist documented construction of the park’s roads, buildings, swimming and parking areas, and golf course. The photos depict the lives of the Civilian Conservation Corps workers who constructed these facilities. The photos were digitized by Almquist’s son, Richard, who grew up on park property. Of approximately 260 images, 120 have been uploaded to CNY Heritage.
Almquist Green Lakes Collection, Fayetteville Free Libraryhttp://cnyheritage.org/u?/fayfre01,132
FFL’s Pilot Projects
The Proposed Green Lakes State Park by Henry R. Francis
A presentation album presented at a luncheon held on February 1, 1924 to discuss creating a new state park in CNY. Includes maps and photos of the proposed site. Digitized with permission of the author’s family. Green Lakes Collection, Fayetteville
Free Libraryhttp://cnyheritage.org/u?/fayfre01,154
FFL’s Pilot Projects
Five photographs taken by Dr. Arthur Rood during the August 22, 1894 Farmer's Day picnic at Green Lake in Fayetteville, NY (present-day Green Lakes State Park).
Green Lakes Collection, Fayetteville Free Library, http://cnyheritage.org/u?/fayfre01,181
LPL’s Pilot Projects
Fred R. Wolcott Photographic CollectionFred R. Wolcott (1862-1946) was a photographer who worked in the Syracuse area. Over a time span of 15 years near the turn of the twentieth century, he took photographs that illustrate the social lives and customs of the Onondaga Nation in Central New York, and also the salt industry. The photographs illustrate people and activities important to the culture and development of Central New York.
Fred R. Wolcott Photographic Collection, Liverpool Public Libraryhttp://cnyheritage.org/u?/livpub01,33
LPL’s Pilot Projects
Crawford CollectionToby Crawford was a Liverpool native who loved to collect historic photographs from various sources. The online collection includes scans of glass plate negatives and photographic prints from George “Waxy” Miller and James T. Rogers taken during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Both gentlemen were professional photographers with studios in Liverpool.
Crawford Collection, Liverpool Public Libraryhttp://www.cnyheritage.org/u?/livpub01,130
LPLs Pilot Projects
Schuelke Collection (coming soon)Ted Schuelke was a Liverpool, New York resident. His photograph collection is comprised of pictures taken in the immediate Liverpool area and in the Adirondacks. Many of the photographs record the Village of Liverpool during the early 1920s; others document Liverpool's salt and willow industries. There are also photographs of the areas surrounding Onondaga Lake, the Oswego Canal, Mud Lock, and the projects undertaken by the Work Relief Bureau under the leadership of Liverpool banker, Crandall Melvin Sr.
Tour of CNY Heritage
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Behind the Scenes at FFL
Digi1 Workstation Epson Perfection
V750 External hard
drive Digitization
Interns DigiWiki
FFL DigiWiki
FFL’s Selection Guidelines
The collection chosen should be of high interest to the FFL community.
The collection should already be organized and have some metadata available or inherent.
The collection must have rights and permissions for electronic distribution secured or securable.
The collection must be in an appropriate format and physical condition for scanning.
Permissions and Requests Contact info in each
record refers users to the library’s gmail account.
Requests for images will be handled based on the permissions for that object or collection.
Forms on S drive Duplication Request
Form Request to Publish or
Display Form
Marketing FFL’s Collections
Local History Web page
Start in September October is Archives
Month
What’s next?
For the partnership: New CNYH logo Collection-level descriptions and browsing Training for new contributing
organizationsFor FFL: FFL’s Green Lakes Web Portal New interns and collections Supporting new contributing organizations
New York 3R’s Digital Projects CDLC http://contentdm.cdlc.org/ LILRC http://www.longislandmemories.org/ MNYLC
http://cdm128401.cdmhost.com/index.php and http://nycdigital.org/dmetro/
NNYLN http://history.nnyln.net/index.html RRLC
http://cdm15109.contentdm.oclc.org/index.html SENYLRC http://www.hrvh.org/ SCRLC http://www.toolsofhistory.org/ WNYLRC http://www.wnylegacy.org/ New York Heritage (aggregator)
http://nyheritage.org/
Slides will be on the S drive and on slideshare.net
THANK YOU!