Fostering Family History Services

A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers

Rhonda L. Clark, Nicole Wedemeyer Miller

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216086437
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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. Websites, social media, and the Internet have made research on family history accessible. Your library can tap into the popularity of the do-it-yourself genealogy movement by promoting your role as both a preserver of local community history as well as a source for helping your patrons archive what's important to their family. This professional guide will teach you how to integrate family history programming into your educational outreach tools and services to the community. The book is divided into three sections: the first introduces methods for creating a program to help your clients trace their roots; the second provides library science instruction in reference and planning for local collections; and the third part focuses on the use of specific types of resources in local collections. Additional information features methods for preserving photographs, letters, diaries, documents, memorabilia, and ephemera. The text also includes bibliographies, appendices, checklists, and links to online aids to further assist with valuating and organizing important family mementos.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Why Providing Family History Services Is a Great Idea
• Chapter 1 Thinking Outside the Collection Box
• Chapter 2 Record It: Preserving Family and Community History
• Chapter 3 Tell It: Oral History for the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 4 Sort It: Assessing and Storing Home Sources
• Chapter 5 Picture It: Gathering, Analyzing, and Storing Family Photographs
• Chapter 6 The Negotiators: Asking and Answering Questions
• Chapter 7 Maximizing Access to Family History Materials
• Chapter 8 Mining the Riches
• Chapter 9 Pooling Our Resources: The Digital Portal
• Appendix A: A Selected Annotated List of How-To Family History Titles
• Appendix B: The Locality Guide
• Appendix C: Associations Related to Local Studies
• Appendix D: Forms
• Index
• About the Author