Uncovering social history: An interdepartmental approach to scrapbook digitization
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Anna R. Craft, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications (Creator)
- David Gwynn, Digital Projects Coordinator (Creator)
- Kathelene McCarty Smith, Associate Professor and Department Head, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In 2011, staff at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboroembarked on a collaborative, cross-departmental project to digitize a large collection ofscrapbooks—a notoriously difficult material type. This article documents challenges, workflows,and lessons learned in the areas of processing, preservation, digitization, and metadata creationfor scrapbooks.
Uncovering social history: An interdepartmental approach to scrapbook digitization
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Additional Information
- Publication
- The American Archivist
- Language: English
- Date: 2016
- Keywords
- Scrapbooks, Digitization, Collaboration, Archives, Academic libraries, Social
history, Metadata