[Nfb-history] JTBL Digital Files Availability

[Morman, Ed]

Peter---

 

Guys like you keep guys like me on our toes.  I'll reply to your points
below my signature

 

Cordially,

Ed Morman

Edward T. Morman, MSLS, PhD

Director, Jacobus tenBroek Library

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND JERNIGAN INSTITUTE

200 East Wells Street

   at Jernigan Place

Baltimore MD 21230

410.659.9314 x2225

410.685.2340 (fax)

 

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Peter asks:   I'd be curious to know if Ed or anyone knows when the
digital files to made available via the Web from the Jacobus TenBroek
Library will go online. At last report this was supposed to happen at
the end of last year. It is now 2010 and they are still not available
online.

 

Ed replies: I'm not sure what you're thinking of.  We had indeed
promised to have the online catalog up and running by the end of the
year.  I regret that we were unable to do so.  I am hopeful of it being
available with a few weeks.  

 

If by "digital files" you are referring to our sound archives, then
there has been some miscommunication.  I can tell you that we are now
working on an application for a six-figure grant to get all of our
audiovisuals digitized and accessible through the web

 

Peter asks:   I did however see the listing of collections of the
TenBroek Papers on the JTBL Page. Will these too eventually become
available via the Internet. Currently one can only access them by
visiting the Jacobus TenBroek Library in person.

 

Ed Replies: I'm pleased that you noticed this.  This is the first fruit
of our project funded by the National Historic Publications and Records
Commission.  We are on schedule to have completed basic processing of
the tenBroek paper, and will continue with the NSF corporate archives.
Be aware that there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper in the
tenBroek papers.  Very few, if any, repositories are able to put an
entire collection of this size online.  Eventually we will make selected
items available through the web, mainly as "teasers."  It will be
necessary to come to Baltimore to consult the collection as a whole.

 

Peter asks:   The deadline for submitting name suggestions for the
Jacobus TenBroek Digital Data Collection was December 15. That date has
long since passed yet that page is still active. I'd like to know if
that deadline has been extended? If not has a name been selected? 

 

Ed replies:  My apologies.  I received only two submissions.  Since the
catalog was not ready to be put online, I thought I'd wait for some
more..  I will check with Mark Riccobono about extending the deadline
and making an official announcement.

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