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A Vertical File, One Donor,
and Some Ghostbusters
Jeanie Langford, ARLS
Nandhitha Agaram, ARLS
Chandra McPherson, ARLS
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Opportunities
• Public interest
• Donation
• A city-sponsored renovation
• Partners
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Public Interest & The Vertical File: A Little History
• Twenty-two years ago we had vertical file clippings and the
Hopewell News on microfilm
• Indexed obituaries
• Began giving programs on the history of the area
• Participated in Virginia Roots Music Exhibit
• Started to get genealogy projects from different parts of the world
• Moved into a new library and received Leake donation for a history room
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One Donor
• The Leake Family donation
• Committee formed to establish policy
• Grand opening
• Programming
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From the Old to the New
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Mr & Mrs Leake and the New Local History Room
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Ann & Preston Leake Local History and Genealogy Room
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Beacon Theater Renovation & Some Ghostbusters
• The Beacon Theater renovation managed by ARLS
• Summer program with Tri-City Paranormal
• Mo’ PR, mo’ programs
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Beacon Theater
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Interior Before Renovation
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Beacon Reborn
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Beacon Historical Research Solidifies LHGR/City Partnership
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Almost There
• Organization
• Promotion & outreach
• Partners & historical groups
• New initiatives & tools
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Getting Organized
• Leake donation, committee forms to outline archive policy, procedures, mission
• Learning to manage archival material in a not-so-archival space
• Making decisions: finding aids, collection cataloging, descriptive tags, data dictionary
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Getting the Word Out: Outreach, Promotion, & Partnerships
• Volunteer
• “Have Display, Will Travel”
• Programs
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New Tools & More Work
• Digitization of Hopewell News
• Only source of microfilms for the Hopewell News
• Collection comprising the period of 1914-2004
• Creekside Digital digitized and hosts it for us; links it to our website
• Went live 12/17/14 and was well received
http://appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com/reelSelector.php
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Omeka • Explored Omeka at the Digital Scanning Lab at The
University of Richmond 7/13/15
• Omeka is a web publishing platform that you can use to create a website to digitally display your collection
• Omeka.net vs. Omeka.org? Free vs. paid?
• Obtained subscription from Omeka 9/18/2015
• Started off our digitization project and went live on 12/30/15
http://lhgc.omeka.net/
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Past Perfect
• Past Perfect is a collection and contact management
software • Omeka was good for displays but we wanted to also catalog
the collection in the local history room • We recently purchased PP and are currently working on
cataloging our collection • Unfortunately not ready to go live yet
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What We Learned
• Outreach works
• Find partners & ask questions
• Be a resource
• Everything we do (big or small) can build publicity
• It’s cyclic: opportunities (outreach, programs, word-of-mouth) = visibility = more opportunities
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Where Next?
• Youth volunteers
• St. Dennis Chapel
• More digital collections
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Contact Information
Jeanie Langford – jlangford @arls.org
Nandhitha Agaram – [email protected]
Chandra McPherson - [email protected]
www.arls.org