GALILEO Annual Conference

(This session has concluded. Presentation slides and the video recording are available on this session page.)

During this session, public library staff will share short, lightning-round style presentations showcasing recently completed digitization projects. Participants will briefly share their materials selection process, project workflows, final deliverables, and lessons learned. Attendees will learn about the digitization process and take home ideas for scalable projects that can be easily adapted to pandemic safety requirements at their own institutions.

Presentations:

Voices of the Past-- How the Savannah Tribune history was preserved
Digitization of local documents helped preserve the history of African Americans leading up to the Civil Rights Movement.
Speakers: Belle Reynoso, Linda Bridges, Jamie Whiting, Marie Russell
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The challenges and successes of web archiving the local response to COVID-19
The Athens-Clarke County Library, Heritage Room has been working diligently for over a year to accurately and completely document the active local community response to COVID-19. There have been many challenges and successes; in this lightning session we will review a few of the key challenges and successes of our first spontaneous collection event.
Speakers: Ashley Shull, Imani Carter
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Postcards for Dummies
Everything you need to know about digitizing, creating metadata, and cataloging a postcard collection for inclusion on the Digital Library of Georgia website aimed at the novice.
Speakers: Melody S. Jenkins
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All the News That's Fit to Digitize
A suburban Atlanta library works to digitize 100 years of the local newspaper of record.
Speakers: Jeff Fisher
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The Codex: A Journey to Preserve a 450-Year-Old Treasure in Southeast Georgia
The Brunswick Library is home to a large, 4 feet X 2.5 feet, leather and metal-bound hand-lettered liturgical choral book estimated to have been created around 1580. The book, or "codex," is a popular attraction that was recently digitized by the Auburn Ave location of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library thanks to a Georgia Home Place project and is now preserved digitally through the Digital Library of Georgia.
Speakers: Geri Mullis
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The Augusta Chinese-American Oral History Project at Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
The Augusta Chinese-American Oral History Project includes twenty-six (26) oral interviews of individuals who either immigrated to Augusta, Georgia from China, and/or grew up in Augusta during the early to mid-twentieth century. The interviews were gathered in 2011 and 2012 by members of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Augusta (CCBA), with Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System serving as a partner institution. In 2018, the interviews were made available in the DLG.
Speakers: Tina Monaco
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"They Endure": Digitizing Black Oral Histories in Cairo, Georgia
The "They Endure" Oral History Project is a collection of interviews and photographic slides that document community memory from Black residents of Cairo, Georgia in 1982. This presentation will feature a discussion on Black histories in the American South and archival accessibility.
Speakers: Elizabeth Goggin and Janet Boudet
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O, Baby!
A look inside the first maternity home in Georgia through a digitized community scrapbook.
Speakers: Kim Cannon
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"Our Stories, Our Lives": Capturing Stories from People with Disabilities
In 2018 Stephanie Irvin, GLASS outreach librarian, worked with the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies to collect and archive an oral history collection of stories to document a more complete history of the disability experience, specifically that of people with print disabilities who are living in Georgia. Here what GLASS staff and volunteers did to make it happen.
Speakers: Pat Herndon


Audience: Public Library and Academic