Next Steps

I think we all learned great deal during the Palinet workshop on Wednesday, November 12th and I, for one, am very excited about the possibilities. Our follow-up meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3^rd at 2PM in the library’s Community Room (basement of the Lackawanna County Children’s Library). In the meantime, please think about some ideas for a focused project that could include items from all of our collections and that would be attractive to possible funders.

Draft of Palinet Report

A draft of the Palinet Report is now available on our Wiki under Documents.

Location for 11/12 Workshop

We now have a location for the workshop on November 12th. It will be at the Trolley Museum.

Scott

Thank You and Upcoming Workshop

Dear Partners,
First, I would like to thank all of your enthusiasm and your cooperation during this week’s visit by Tom Clareson and Laurie Gemmill. They were, of course, very impressed with our collections and the care we give them, but they also told me how impressed they were with our cooperative spirit. Apparently, you do not find this in all communities. They will soon begin preparing their report. In the meantime, we can start thinking about the workshop they will be offering on November 12th which will focus on prioritizing collections for digitization, preservation, copyright, and funding. I am working on a location for the workshop. In the meantime, please set November 12th aside on your calendars. It will be an all day workshop.

Thank you again!
Scott

Here is an updated schedule for Palinet's visit


Tuesday, October 7th
9:30AM: Kick-Off Meeting in the Community Room of the Lackawanna County Children's Library.
Afternoon: Palinet visits Anthracite Museum

Wednesday, October 8th
All Day: Palinet visits Lackawanna Historical Society
All Day: Palinet visits Albright Memorial Library

Thursday, October 9th
Morning: Palinet visits Times-Tribune
Morning: Palinet visits Steamtown
12:30PM: Wrap-Up / Working Lunch in the Community Room of the Lackawanna County Children's Library.

Tentative Palinet Schedule

Here is a tentative schedule for the Palinet Visit:

Tuesday, October 7th
9:30AM: Kick-Off Meeting at the library.
Afternoon: Visit to Anthracite Museum

Wednesday, October 8th
All Day: Lackawanna Historical Society
All Day: Albright Memorial Library

Thursday, October 9th
Morning: Times-Tribune
Morning: Steamtown

This will be refined in the coming weeks.

New Wiki

Please visit our new, upgraded Wiki.

Yesterday's Meeting

Dear Partners,

It was great, at yesterday’s meeting, to hear all of the excitement and enthusiasm expressed by everyone in the room. Just to recap (and for the benefit for those who couldn’t make it):

Tom Clareson and his team from Palinet will be here on October 7^th-October 9^th. There will be a group meeting with the consultants for an hour or two probably on the 7^th. Then the team will split up and visit all of the sites that have collections. Someone who is knowledgeable about the collection should be available on-site to answer questions.

2. Palinet will deliver their report sometime in late fall. Also, around that time, Tom will come back and present a workshop on best practices for preservation, digitization, and copyright.

3. Everyone agreed that this group should be expanded to include other local historical societies, the universities, and other entities that collect local history information. There was talk of having an expanded meeting sometime in January after the we have the Palinet report in hand.

4. There was agreement that our group should not remain ad-hoc. It should be given cohesion through, at the very list, a mission statement, a name, and membership list so that will our work can continue well beyond the initial grant period.

5. We talked about access, portals, formats, copyright and other issues that the Palinet folks can help us with.

I’ll keep you posted!

Scott

Agenda for July 30th Partner's Meeting

Download the agenda for the July 30th Partner's Meeting!

Palinet Visit Scheduled!

The visit by Palinet, the consultants who will be studying our collections, is scheduled for October 7th-9th. Keep checking back for updates.

Meeting Date Set

Our first meeting is set for Wednesday, July 30th at 9:30AM in the Administrative Offices of the Albright Memorial Library. I'll see you then!

Keeping You Up-to-Date

This blog is designed to keep our partners up-to-date on what is happening with the Scranton Archives Project (or the Digitization Planning Project). (Our first order business should be to come up with a name for this beast.) Right now I'm trying to schedule our first meeting and catch up with some of the documentation. Please keep checking back. For those of you who don't know me, I've attached my photo.