-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: New Orleans and museum collections - what have we learned ? Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:02:26 -0700 From: To: 'Bill Hecht' <wsh6@cornell.edu>, NYFingerLakes-L@rootsweb.com Bill http://content.lib.washington.edu/communitymuseum/resources.html Here is a great set of resources for those interested in digitizing documents, pictures and the like. Our community initiated this project over a year ago...now there are about 6-8,000 images scanned (many are slides associated with the NPS in the region), but it's a start. Imagine if you could do that with your own pictures and documents? Disasters can be huge in scope like Katrina, or small in scope like have a house fire or having a vehicle stolen with a research binder in it. These latter two happened to me, and it was the digitization of records that survived the former that allowed me to recreate the latter. Great issue Bill, now, the question is - how many folks will do something about it at their local level. xxx xxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hecht [mailto:wsh6@cornell.edu] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:43 AM To: NYFingerLakes-L@rootsweb.com Subject: New Orleans and museum collections - what have we learned ? I wonder how many museums in small towns and cities and thousands of individuals now wish they had, at the very least, a digital copy of their family memories and museum collections. I am sure tens of thousand of items have been lost forever. Does your local museum have backup copies of at least some of their imprtant documents and items.? At least a XEROX copy? How many have an inventory? Of items. Of documents. ______________________________