State Library of Ohio Blog http://library.ohio.gov/blog Thu, 23 May 2013 20:17:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Last change to register for Free Preservation Boot Camp http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=4356 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=4356#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 20:17:30 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=4356 Question:  Where can you or staff spend the day leaning about key preservation issues such as disaster recovery and collections, network with colleagues old and new about shared issues, listen to an engaging dinner speaker, and watch a preservation film festival?  And receive this all at NO COST.  Answer:  At the two-day Preservation Boot Camp a focused, educational event which will bring together teams comprised of museum/history staff and library staff.  For additional information on sessions and speakers see a Draft Agenda

Do you have staff interested in digitization, preservation or local history?  The Ohio Connecting to Collections partners would like to extend an invitation to attend the Preservation  Boot Camp.  The application period has been extended until May 31, 2013.  Consider applying with or without a partner.   If you do not have a partner, please consider applying anyway and we will match you with an institution in your area.

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Connecting to Collections Preservation Boot Camp applications now available

July 31 – August 1, 2013  Holiday Inn Worthington

Registration for the conference is free. 

Lodging, meals and workshop materials will be covered by the IMLS grant.

Submission deadline:  May 31, 2013

Application:

The application packet includes a team application form; a personal information statement  to be completed and signed by each team member; and a commitment statement from each team member’s director or supervisor.

Looking for a partner?  Try these lists:

Members of Ohio Local History Alliance:  http://www.ohiolha.org/members

Ohio Library Directories:  http://library.ohio.gov/LS/Directories

Ohio Museums Guide:  http://ohiomuseums.org/ohio-museums/guide/a-z/

Talk to people.  Chances are someone on your staff or governing board or someone you know or who frequents your institution has a contact at a potential partnering institution.  Or contact Missy Lodge, State Library, mlodge@library.ohio.gov, Johnna McEntee, Ohio Museums Association, oma@ohiohistory.org, Andy Verhoff, Ohio Historical Society, averhoff@ohiohistory.org or Maggie Marconi, Follett House Museum/Ohio Local History Alliance, mmarconi@sanduskylib.org and we will help locate you a partner.

Or, send in a single application and we will match you with a partner after May 31.

Applications should be submitted to:

Missy Lodge
mlodge@library.ohio.gov
State Library of Ohio
274 E. First Ave., Columbus, OH  43201
614.644.6914 (phone)
800.686.1532  (Ohio only)
614-466-3584  (fax)

Applicants will be notified in early June.

Ohio Connecting to Collections planning partners includes representation from statewide organizations, the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Ohio Museums Association, as well as institutional representatives from Follett House Museum in Sandusky, the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the Massillon Museum of Art, and Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Alden Library. Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services at LYRASIS is consultant for the project.

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This project is funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections grant awarded to the State Library of Ohio. 

]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=4356 0 This Day in History: May 23, 1934 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2714 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2714#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:58 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2714 May 23, 1934 – Outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are killed by the police.
photos of Bonnie and Clyde from FBI website

[FBI documents regarding Bonnie and Clyde]
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]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2714 0 This Day in History: May 22, 1843 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2712 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2712#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 06:05:04 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2712 May 22, 1843 – Known as the “Great Emigration,” a massive wagon train made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, set off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri.
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Book cover for A story of the Red Cross A story of the Red Cross; glimpses of field work by Clara Barton
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]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2708 0 This Day in History: May 20, 1956 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2697 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2697#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 06:33:26 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2697 May 20, 1956 - The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb over the island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll  in the Pacific Ocean.

The hell bomb
623.45 L373  Dewey Stacks

]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2697 0 This Day in History: May 19, 1749 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2694 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2694#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 06:25:14 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2694 May 19, 1749 – King George II of England grants the Ohio Company a charter of several hundred thousand acres of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
George Mercer of the Ohio Company : a study in frustration
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]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2694 0 This Day in History: May 18, 1980 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2686 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2686#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 06:49:31 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2686 May 18, 1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts
30 Cool facts about Mount St. Helens : commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens, come and explore
30 Cool facts about Mount St. Helens : commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens, come and explore

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Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, Kansas : cultural landscape guidelines
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]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2682 0 This Day in History: May 14, 1897 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2667 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2667#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 06:44:03 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2667 May 14, 1897  – “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
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Perspectives on John Philip Sousa
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]]> http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2667 0 This Day in History: May 13, 1607 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2662 http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2662#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:33 +0000 Marsha McDevitt-Stredney http://library.ohio.gov/blog/?p=2662 May 13, 1607 – Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America is founded.
Pocahontas and her World book cover

Pocahontas and her world; a chronicle of America’s first settlement in which is related the story of the Indians and the Englishmen, particularly Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel Argall, and Master John Rolfe
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