[Nfb-history] Project Ideas

[Morman, Ed]

Dear Tina and other list-members-

We are waiting to hear from the National Endowment for the Humanities on a grant proposal we submitted last summer.  We should get word within a few weeks.  If we win the grant, we will start very quickly on digitizing items like The Man and the Movement.  We will also be putting the digitized material on servers so that we can mount them on the website with ease.

If we don't receive the grant, we will get started on this work, in any case, within a few months-probably soon after the national convention.

I will check into the possibility of mounting audio of the earlier conventions on the website, but this may have to wait for a while.

Please keep letting us know what you want to see.


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)



The tenBroek Library is the only library on blindness that is owned and controlled by the blind themselves.  Check out our archival database, THE CANE TIP (www.nfb.org/thecanetip<http://www.nfb.org/thecanetip>) and our online public access catalog, THE BLIND CAT  (www.nfb.org/theblindcat<http://www.nfb.org/theblindcat>).  Both are fully accessible.

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From: nfb-history-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-history-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Chrane
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:53 PM
To: NFB History Support List
Subject: Re: [Nfb-history] Project Ideas

Hi Tina, it isn't difficult to put the Man and The movement, on Digital format.

Ed Morman may have some suggestions.

Hope this helps.

Ken Chrane


----- Original Message -----
From: Tina Hansen<mailto:th404 at comcast.net>
To: NFB History Support List<mailto:nfb-history at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:49 PM
Subject: [Nfb-history] Project Ideas

Man, this list has been deader than a doornail over the past month.

I'd like to offer some suggestions for possible projects this group might wish to take on, with support from the National Office. For years, I've been wanting to see us get the Kernel Books recorded in digital audio, especially since tapes are on their final leg. I'd also like to see a digital recording of The Man and the Movement, our biography of our founder, Jacobus tenBroekk. Is there anyone interested in taking on this project?

Is there any chance of National offering audio archives from conventions from 2007 and back?

Also, there has been no further action on creating a web site since the convention in Orlando.

Is there anyone on this list who would be interested in taking some of this on? I can only do so much, but there is no way National can do it all alone, nor is there any way I can take on a massive project all alone. What can I do, and is there anyone who can make this happen along with me? Thanks.
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