Look inside the August Issue of the Arkansas Archivist for these and other features:
AHC and North Little Rock History Commission Present WWI
Symposium
The Arkansas History Commission
and the North Little Rock History Commission are joining forces to honor those
who served their country in World War I almost a century ago. On August
29, from 10 am to 3 pm, the AHC and the NLRHC will hold a symposium called,
The Great War: Service on All Fronts, at the Patrick Henry Hays Senior
Center in North Little Rock at 401 West Pershing Boulevard.
“Who Do You Think You Are?” Visits AHC in June
The Arkansas History Commission has been keeping a big
secret this summer! In April, we were notified that representatives of the TLC
genealogy documentary series “Who Do You Think You Are?” were coming to scout
our location for a forthcoming episode in the 2015 season of the series.
In May, story producers from Shed Media, one of the partners of the show,
visited Little Rock to meet with staff, check out our location, and review
preliminary research conducted for the episode.
AHC Introduces WWI Traveling Exhibit
At the World War I symposium the AHC and North Little Rock
History Commission is hosting, the AHC will debut a new traveling exhibit
focusing on Arkansas during World War I. The traveling exhibit, entitled,
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I, spotlights Arkansas’s role in
the war, both on the battlefield and on the home front. The exhibit
consists of twelve panels that showcase images from the AHC’s holdings,
including original documents, photographs, posters, maps, and historical
objects.
From the Director
Last month, I talked about a number of factors that shape
the Arkansas History Commission’s digitization initiative, like the initial
costs of scanning and creating metadata, and also those ongoing costs of
storing and migrating digital data so it remains accessible throughout the life
of your project. So, given the costs involved in creating digital
collections, how does an agency with limited funds, like ours, ultimately
decide what materials will be digitized for online access? With a collection
that has been growing for over 110 years, I can promise you that the selection
process isn’t random, and at times the choices can be agonizing.
