Fostering family history services a guide for librarians, archivists, and volunteers

Here is everything you need to promote your library as a center for genealogical study by leveraging your collection to help patrons conduct research on ancestors, document family stories, and archive family heirlooms. Discusses the reference environment and offers tips for strategic planning for lo...

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Main Authors: Clark, Rhonda L. (Author), Miller, Nicole Wedemeyer (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why providing family history services is a great idea
  • Thinking outside the collection box
  • Record it: Preserving family and community history
  • Tell it: Oral history for the 21st century
  • Sort it: Assessing and storing home sources
  • Picture it: Gathering, analyzing and storing family photographs
  • The negotiators: Asking and answering questions
  • Maximizing access to family history materials
  • Mining the riches
  • Pooling our resources: The digital portal
  • Appendix A: Annotated lists of family history titles forms
  • Appendix B: The locality guide
  • Appendix C: Associations related to local studies
  • Appendix D: Forms.