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News from SCRLC
EmpireADC Award for ESLN & UAlbany Announced
The Empire State Library Network and the University of Albany Libraries have announced the award of a nearly $250,000 IMLS grant for their ArcLight Integration Project. This project will enhance EmpireADC.org, a statewide project of the library councils that we encourage everyone to join. EmpireADC is a repository for archival finding aids. In short, this IMLS grant with UAlbany libraries will seamlessly integrate materials from digital collections into those online finding aids.
Here's a second round of our smallest collections from the last year or two. These collections all have fewer than 20 items, but sometimes that's all you need to represent a subject.
New Collection: Seneca Falls DAR Scrapbook 1896-1999
A scrapbook created by former Seneca Falls Town Historian Roberta Halden, all about the Daughters of the American Revolution Sa-go-ye-wat-ha chapter.
New Collection: Osborne & Metcalf Collection
Two families were intricately tied to the development of Auburn, NY: the Osbornes and the Metcalfs. The Osbornes (like Eliza Wright Osborne and Thomas Mott Osborne) were influential in reform and activism. We hope this collection from the Cayuga County Historian's Office will grow, but in the meantime, we wanted to make sure the families were represented on NY Heritage, if even with just a few objects.
New Collection: Land Office Legers
Originally digitized by Griffin Bates, who has now taken the role of Steuben County Historian and shares space in the Magee House with the Steuben County Historical Society, this ledger includes some of the earliest property information about the Pulteney Estate. The book is formally titled "Land Office Leger," and that misspelled title carries over to its digital surrogate.
New Collection: Auburn Old Home Week Parade, 1906
A small collection of a parade in 1906 through downtown Auburn, showing main streets and buildings.
New Collection: Spencer Firefighters
Photographs from Tioga County of the Spencer Chemical Company and their Fire Pump from around 1900. Happily, one photo is paired with a typed list of identified men.
New Collection: Churches of Caroline
Photos of churches and church gatherings in Caroline, a rural community in Tompkins County.
New Collection: Workers of Broome County
Photos from an industrious city of the 20th century, showing boot factory workers, cigar factory workers, paving company workers, the public market at Endicott-Johnson, and a workshop for the disabled.
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