Description |
xvii, 269 pages : illustrations, black and white ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"Here is everything you need to promote your library as a center for genealogical study by leveraging your collection to help patrons conduct research on ancestors, document family stories, and archive family heirlooms. Discusses the reference environment and offers tips for strategic planning for local studies. Includes hints of how to assess, organize, discard, or donate family heirlooms. Offers suggestions for caring for family history archives, including physical enclosures, digital copies, and the importance of data backups. Features templates for partnership agreements with other organizations"-- Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Thinking outside the collection box -- Record it : preserving family and community history -- Tell it : oral history for the twenty-first century -- Sort it : assessing and storing home sources -- Picture it : gathering, analyzing and storing family photographs -- The negotiators : asking and answering questions -- Maximizing access to family history materials -- Mining the riches -- Pooling our resources : the digital portal -- Appendix A. A selected annotated list of how-to family history titles -- Appendix B. The locality guide -- Appendix C. Associations related to local studies -- Appendix D. Forms. |
Subject |
Libraries -- Special collections -- Genealogy.
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Libraries -- Special collections -- Local history materials.
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Family archives.
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Local history -- Archival resources.
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Genealogy.
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Added Author |
Miller, Nicole Wedemeyer, author.
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ISBN |
9781610695411 (paperback) |
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1610695410 (paperback) |
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