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Developments in March

Janet — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:42:56 +0000

I am proud to report that today I installed a search application on the website. You may now put a search term- Pierce, for example- and be rewarded with collections and organizations involving him. This is a large leap forward in our project.

I also changed the main list of organizations to read alphabetically by institution name. If you found it more useful to browse by town name, that is still available too.

We are planning more website changes in the near future. Please check back! As always thank you to everyone who has participated.

This week

Janet — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:35:04 +0000

Concord Public Library
Mary E. Bartlett Memorial Library in Brentwood
Chesley Memorial Library
Daland Memorial Library in Mont Vernon
Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth
William D. Weeks Memorial Library in Lancaster
Amherst Town Library
Derry Public Library
Madison Library
Moffett House Museum & Genealogy Center
Holderness School Archives
Dublin Historical Society
H Raymond Danforth Library @ New England College

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

Revised:
Chesterfield Historical Society, Inc.

I have one more batch to put up to catch up with all the respondents so far. In total we have invited 765 institutions so far and had approximately 100 surveys returned.

New collections – Fa la la!

Janet — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:48:17 +0000

Here’s what I worked at adding to the website over this week.

Chocorua Public Library
Barrington Public Library
Peterborough Public Library
Wilmot Public Library
Laconia Public Library
Merrimack Public Library
DiPietro Library at Franklin Pierce University
Sandown Public Library
Goodwin Public Library at Farmington Public Library Association
Meredith Public Library

More collections going up

Janet — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:46:11 +0000

Kensington Public Library
Fiske Free Library in Claremont
Canaan Town Library
Boscawen Public Library
Pembroke Town Library
Teti Library at NH Institute of Art
Hooksett Public Library
Fuller Public Library in Hillsborough
James A. Tuttle Library in Antrim
Gilford Public Library
Kelley Library in Salem

Collections added November 21&22

Janet — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:45:22 +0000

It was a good weekend for working. I added the following:

Sanbornton Historical Society
Bedford Public Library
Muster Field Farm Museum Matthew Harvey Homestead, Inc.
Wallace E. Mason Library @ Keene State College
Portsmouth Public Library
Littleton Area Historical Society
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site

And updated two more:
NH Fish & Game
Chesterfield Historical Society, Inc.

Organization list

Janet — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:14:47 +0000

I have had a number of folks contact me to suggest collections to add or wondering if they were going to be asked to contribute to our project. To help sort that out, I have put together a list of organizations [pdf] in our database. At this point, everyone for whom we could find email addresses has been invited to take our survey.

If you are on this list and you have not received an invite, please get in touch with us! It means we are looking for a way to get in touch with you or that we sent an email and it did not reach you.

Stay tuned over the next couple weeks as I will return to putting more collections up. There is some terrific stuff in this state!

Collections added today

Janet — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:49:56 +0000

I spent this dreary Friday adding the following organizations and their collections to the website.

Francestown Improvement & Historical Society
Exeter Public Library
Phillips Exeter Academy – Class of 1945 Library
Fitzwilliam Historical Society
Londonderry Historical Society
Stratham Historical Society
NH Fish and Game

Calling all NH libraries

Janet — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:12:20 +0000

I sent the survey to 320 NH library email addresses on Sunday. I am pleased and proud to report that 18 have already responded. Next week I’ll be working on adding some more collections to the website. Stay tuned!

Website updated

Janet — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:56:38 +0000

We released an updated version of the website today. This one features the first batch of participating organizations, along with their collections. There are many more to come, of course, but this may give you an idea of what the goal of the project is. Also new is basic collection browsing, a list of resources for folks interested in similar projects, and some of our grant application materials on our About page.

As you look around, please keep in mind that this is just the earliest iteration of the site. We are working on a way to combine browsing terms for more nuanced research, a search for collections, and commenting on collections as well as many other smaller tweaks. If you have an idea of how to make this more useful, please leave a comment below.

NHAIS blog appearance

Janet — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:10:04 +0000

Our humble project, officially titled Connecting to Collections was mentioned on the NHAIS blog last week. We’ll be sending survey invites out to NH libraries any day now – please answer the call!