Preserving Church Records Together: A Sustainable Model

Abstract

Staff from three academic libraries will discuss how they collaborated on a grant to make materials from historic rural churches publicly accessible online. They will discuss:

• selecting, digitizing, and physical transferring materials;
• creating shared metadata standards;
• building a site in Omeka S;
• and supporting long-term curation of community content.

They'll also highlight how collaboration helped them navigate

• staffing changes,
• vendor issues,
• remote coordination,
• and a grant extension.

This project involved Columbia Theological Seminary, Mercer University, and Emory University - who joined forces to collaborate on the Historic Rural Churches grant funded by the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation.

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