IMLS Grant
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Rochester
Images
PROJECT ABSTRACT |
This grant proposal presents a collaboration between a museum, a public library, and an
urban public school district that will demonstrate national leadership in the development
of digitized products for the support of educational use. As the lead agency, the
Rochester Public Library will expand an established collaboration with two City of
Rochester agencies, through which it is building an electronic database of historic
photographs and maps, by adding to the database historic photographs from a major
collection of the Rochester Museum & Science Center. The Museum and the Library will
develop work procedures that integrate the catalog systems of both institutions to provide
uniform searching capabilities and accessibility to the database. The Library and Museum
will further collaborate with the Rochester City School District in an active program to
develop classroom and other curricular activities that use the electronically available
photographs and maps in meeting New York State requirements for the study of local history
and historical methods. The project will accomplish the following four goals:
- Expand access to local history primary source materials by creating an electronic
thematic anthology collection of 22,500 photographs and maps of regional and national
significance.
- Establish an active partnership among the Library, Museum, and School District that will
make direct use of the electronic collection to enhance the district's social studies
curriculum.
- Establish innovative models for conversion and integration of data among library and
museum systems and for document delivery of images from the database.
- Establish the Library and Museum as regional leaders in providing uniform searching and
integrated access to digitized regional resources for the use of targeted audiences and
the general public.
In order to reach these goals, the design of this project provides for the following
activities:
- The Museum and Library will add 7500 photographs comprising half of the Museum's Stone
Collection to a database of 15,000 digitized photographs and maps from the Library and
City archives. The expansion will be accomplished through scanning and data conversion of
the Stone Collection photographs as well as data conversion for Library and City
photographs which have been scanned under other programs.
- The City School District will develop educational activities and performance objectives
for the 4th and 7th grade local history curriculum, conduct related training activities
with teachers, and establish a pilot program for students to create a digital database of
personal history items. To supplement the curriculum activities as well as the content of
the image database, the Library and Museum will develop electronic pathfinders and usage
guides linking the image database to Library, Museum and community resources.
- The Library and Museum will develop procedures for the development and management of the
database the will connect, through translator or other software programs, the Library's
CARL system and a Multi MIMSY records management system at the Museum in order to provide
uniform searching capabilities and integrated access.
- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation will measure the effectiveness of the enhanced
curriculum materials, the cost effectiveness of the work that integrates the collections
of the Library and Museum, and the effectiveness of the database usage guides and document
delivery systems in meeting teachers' and students' classroom needs.
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