Band-aids and superglue for the cash-strapped local history librarian -- Basic in-house book and paper repair -- Emergency preparedness -- You can't keep it all -- Balancing selection and digitization : selecting 19th and early-20th century newspaper titles for online access -- Indexing your local newspapers on microfilm -- Newspaper preservation in developing countries : issues and strategies for intervention -- How to get scrapbooks into the hands of users -- Keeping scrapbooks secure and available -- Physical properties of scrapbooks -- Creating local history development guidelines -- Keeping a past : preservation issues in local history -- Minimizing privacy and copyright concerns with online local history collections -- Lavaca County Records Retention Project -- Managing archives in local history collections -- Partnering with local genealogical societies -- Patron driven family history preservation -- Collecting and preserving photographic materials -- Organizing and indexing photo collections -- Photograph selection, access, and preservation for the public librarian -- Digital preservation of the Emilie Davis diaries -- Preserving and 'publishing' local biographies -- Promoting local history through the catablog -- Reinventing the obituary file for the digital age -- Preserving born-digital oral histories -- Preserving Indiana women's voices : a university oral history project -- Steps in preserving oral histories -- Affiliation agreements -- Educating the community : preserving tomorrow's treasures today -- Historical sheet music collections : practical wisdom, racial sensitivity -- Tracing history through non-traditional methods.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.