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Preservation Perspectives: Exhibits In Libraries And Archives, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Exhibits In Libraries And Archives, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Exhibits are wonderful tools for highlighting your collections and connecting with the community you serve. They also enable potential collaborations between donors, departments, authors, and community organizations. The exhibits themselves can be big or small, temporary or permanent—it is the content that matters.
Preservation Perspectives: The Disaster Plan, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: The Disaster Plan, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The winter and spring of 2018 certainly delivered a reminder to librarians and archivists about potential weather-related disasters in the workplace, and within our home collections. My last column focused on practical tips to prepare for and handle emergencies. Now we will focus on creating a disaster plan. If your institution does not have a plan in place, or if the plan has not been updated in three or more years, this is an excellent time to get to work.
Preservation Perspectives: Disaster Planning, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Disaster Planning, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
Summer is here, bringing the potential for storms, heavy rain, flooding, high winds, and more. However, it is not only summer storms we must be concerned with, as disaster can strike at any time, caused by Mother Nature or by humans – think plumbing or electrical problems. In any event, we as archivists, librarians, and home historians should be ready for any type of disaster by being prepared and having a plan. Today we will focus on preparing for a disaster at home or in the office. Next time we will explore the disaster plan itself.
Preservation Perspectives: The Magic Of Outreach, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: The Magic Of Outreach, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article discusses the importance of outreach programs among collectors and archivists. It mentions the hurdles of being a collector as his collection is often kept and that the challenge is in raising awareness. It adds that outreach is a tool where collectors and archivists can promote, protect and connect the community to one's collection and archive.
Preservation Perspectives: New Year & New Goals, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: New Year & New Goals, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article discusses the importance of making realistic goals for 2017 such as reappraising existing archival library collections, addressing preservation concerns and creating new or updated finding aids for easier accessibility of collections. It offers information on the basic questions needed to be asked in reviewing collections such as the appropriateness of collection to policy and scope, adequacy of storage location and its types of formats.
Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The author encourages public librarian in Kentucky to attend one-day conferences focused on archives, preservation, and historical research. Topics discussed include this year's spring conference offered by Kentucky Council on Archives (KCA) with the theme "If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring and Managing Facilities in Archives" and the 32nd Kentucky Archives Institute on June 17 with genealogist J. Mark Lowe's speaking on early Kentucky courts.
Our Rich History: Covington Ladies Home Celebrating 130th Year, Serving Senior Women With Quality Care, Bill Stolz
Our Rich History: Covington Ladies Home Celebrating 130th Year, Serving Senior Women With Quality Care, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
2016 marks the 130th year of operation for the Covington Ladies Home located at 702 Garrard Street in the Licking Riverside Historic District. The organization, originally called the Home for Aged and Indigent Women (still visible in the stone above the main entrance today), was founded in 1886 by Covington resident Ellen B. Dietrick, an early advocate for equality and education for women, with the goal of providing care for women over the age of 60. Today, 130 years later, the mission of the Covington Ladies Home is the same, “to serve senior women, regardless of their economic circumstances, by …
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs Part Ii - Labeling And Preservation, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs Part Ii - Labeling And Preservation, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article offers tips for preserving family photographs for the next generation. Tips include finding a space where humidity and temperature remain constant and away from the light, contacting an expert when in doubt about photograph preservation and purchasing photograph storage supplies and enclosures from reputable national suppliers like Gaylord Archival and Hollinger Metal Edge.
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs, Part I-Identification, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Family Photographs, Part I-Identification, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The author opines on identification of photographs. Topics discussed include identifying the type of photographs through the online chart by The Northeast Document Conservation Center, scanning and email the image to family members, and noticing clothing, hats, and hair, and checking the background and objects in the photograph.
Preservation Perspectives: Connecting The Next Generation To The Past, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Connecting The Next Generation To The Past, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being a librarian dealing on topics including presidential museum and tomb of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, World War II and historical sites in Kentucky.
Preservation Perspectives: Caring For Family Papers, Bill Stolz
Preservation Perspectives: Caring For Family Papers, Bill Stolz
University Libraries' Staff Publications
The article offers tips to protect, preserve and prolong the life of family papers. It suggests to make an inventory of the items, whether business records, order books, diaries and letters. It recommends to thoroughly examine the material and prioritize items by the condition, where deteriorating or damaged items need to be taken to a conservator for advice and stabilization's estimate.