Digitizing Day Handbook: A Planning Guide for Local Communities (Web Resource)
Title: Digitizing Day Handbook: A Planning Guide for Local Communities
Author: University Archives & Special Collections Department in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston
Abstract: This Digitizing Day Handbook is intended to serve as a guide for community groups to organize such events. The suggested training and planning procedures provided here are based on the Mass. Memories Road Show staff’s nearly 15 years’ experience with managing these types of events. The Mass. Memories Road Show model is outlined in greater detail in another publication, the Mass. Memories Road Show Project Handbook.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://fishingheritagecenter.org/programs/community-documentation/
Primary URL Description: Bedford/Fairhaven Fishing Community was a year-long effort to digitize the cultural heritage of New Bedford’s fishing community. The project was a collaboration involving the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, University Archives and Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Clair T. Carney Library at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MIT Sea Grant, New Bedford Free Public Library, and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. The project centered around a day-long digitizing event. The event is typically held in a public space, generally a local public library, historical society or community center. This Digitizing Day Handbook is intended to serve as a guide for community groups to organize such events.

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