ISBN: 9780810883581 (pbk.)

Description: xi, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Band-aids and superglue for the cash-strapped local history librarian / Chad Leinaweaver
• Basic in-house book and paper repair / Karen E.K Brown
• Emergency preparedness / Dyani Feige
• You can't keep it all / Rochelle LeMaster
• Balancing selection and digitization : selecting 19th and early-20th century newspaper titles for online access / Athena Jackson
• Indexing your local newspapers on microfilm / Kelly Zackmann
• Newspaper preservation in developing countries : issues and strategies for intervention / Goodluck Israel Ifijeh
• How to get scrapbooks into the hands of users / Anastasia Weigle
• Keeping scrapbooks secure and available / Erin Foley
• Physical properties of scrapbooks / Jennifer Hain Teper
• Creating local history development guidelines / William Helling
• Keeping a past : preservation issues in local history / Nancy Richey
• Minimizing privacy and copyright concerns with online local history collections / David Gwynn
• Lavaca County Records Retention Project / Brenda Lincke Fisseler
• Managing archives in local history collections / Sarah Welland
• Partnering with local genealogical societies / Lisa Fraser
• Patron driven family history preservation / Howard C. Bybee
• Collecting and preserving photographic materials / Amanda Drost
• Organizing and indexing photo collections / Rose Fortier
• Photograph selection, access, and preservation for the public librarian / Rebekah Tabah
• Digital preservation of the Emilie Davis diaries / Alexia Hudson
• Preserving and 'publishing' local biographies / Elizabeth B. Cooksey
• Promoting local history through the catablog / Cyndi Harbeson
• Reinventing the obituary file for the digital age / Kerry FitzGerald
• Preserving born-digital oral histories / Juliana Nykolaiszyn
• Preserving Indiana women's voices : a university oral history project / Theresa McDevitt
• Steps in preserving oral histories / Suellyn Lathrop
• Affiliation agreements / Tomaro Taylor
• Educating the community : preserving tomorrow's treasures today / Jessica Phillips
• Historical sheet music collections : practical wisdom, racial sensitivity / Karl Madden
• Tracing history through non-traditional methods / Emily Griffin.

LCCN: 2011045068

Control Number: 890534

Subjects:

• Libraries -- Special collections -- Local history materials.
• Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Local history materials.
• Local history materials -- Conservation and restoration.

Other Authors:

• Smallwood, Carol, 1939-
• Williams, Elaine, 1968-