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Austin History Center
810 Guadalupe
P.O. Box 2287
Austin ,TX
78768-2287
(512)4997480
ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc
Projects
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| Title: | O. Henry Guide: A Guide to O. Henry Resources [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2007-01-17 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | The Austin History Center provides the opportunity for a Capstone Student researcher to create a guide to O. Henry Resource across the City of Austin and immediate area. Using work completed by the Austin History Center, the student will:
1) Determine other archives in the region holding primary and important resource materials about William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) and his writings.
2) Solicit the support of each institution to form a participating institutions list.
3) Create a guide to the materials in the participating institutions using access to the institutions or their existing finding aids.
4) Construct an online and paper resource guide that can be used by all of the participating institutions to help researcher study O. Henry resources in the region.
Final Product will be a comprehensive guide that will direct researchers to the significant resources on, about, and by William Sydney Porter in the Austin, Texas, region.
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| Apply: | Susan K. Soy, CA
Manager Austin History Center
sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us
ssoy@ischool.utexas.edu
512-974-7388 |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Austin Treasures Researcher [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2006-06-01 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Capstone student will explore the rich primary resources within the many processed and unprocessed holdings at the Austin History Center in order to make recommendations for visually and historically significant materials to be used in a future book publication.
Work will involve working with each individual staff member at the Austin History Center and Dr. David Gracy. Work will involve assessing other Austin-centric publications in order to suggest content that is new and appealing to the Austin area audience.
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| Apply: | Email Sue Soy at sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us or call 512-974-7388 |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Artists Among Us Local Music Poster Exhibit [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-09-28 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2005 |
| Genre: | Marketing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Work with others at the Austin History Center to create a sequel to the first Artists Among Us local music poster exhibit done in March of 2004 by Jennifer Compton and others. This sequel will be on exhibit at the Austin History Center from January through April of 2006.
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| Apply: | Susan K. Soy 974-7388 sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us |
| Contact: | Virginia Kniesner |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Comprehensive Microfilm Technology Investigation [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-09-28 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Records and Information Management |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Since the Austin History Center has aging microfilm reader/printer equipment and since we foresee a need to permanently house some records designated as permanent in City of Austin Record Control Schedules, we feel it is time to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the state of the art in microfilming and providing public access to microfilm products. End product for this Capstone will include a written report complete with a list of outsourcing vendors and recommendations for action by the Austin History Center to
update services provided to the public and to other city departments.
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| Apply: | Sue Soy 974-7388 sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Develop Grant Application for Neal Douglass Negative Collection [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-09-28 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Grant Research and Writing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Verify the number of negatives in the Neal Douglass Collection by doing a continuation of the inventory. Determine if the majority of the negatives are nitrate or safety film. Write inventory of collection to be used in later grant applications. Identify grant resources and deadlines.
Neal Douglass was an Austin photographer who performed work for the local newspaper and the State of Texas, as well as studio work with the general public. Mr. Douglass's work documents the people, events and built environment of Austin and Travis County in the 1940s-1960s. Access to this visual information would greatly enhance the possibilities for research into this era of Austin's history.
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| Contact: | Ben Grillot |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Film and Video-taping policy [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-09-07 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2005 |
| Genre: | Administrative |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | To create a policy for the Austin History Center with regard to on-site filming and video-taping for the purpose of reproducing the AHC and its property or possessions, including buildings, grounds, and items in the care of the AHC. A film and video taping policiy statement ready for legal evaluation will be presented to Austin History Center, along with accompanying support materials. A staff training session will be given to familiarize staff with the new policy. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Blue Bellies Are in Austin Curriculum Development [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-06-11 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Using the Blue Bellies Are in Austin: Readings from the Travis County Slave Narratives TLA Award Winning DVD and Video, develop a 4th and 7th grade curriculum that will make this product useful to independent teachers as well as public school teachers.
The final product will include worksheets and activity sets that will be appropriate for 4th and 7th grades. It will meet TAKS Objectives, TEKS Objectives, foster reading comprehension skills, and most specifically highlight the use of primary and secondary resources in archives like the Austin History Center.
Blue Bellies Are in Austin: Readings from the Travis County Slave Narratives was created through collaborative efforts of the ProArts Collective, the W. H. Passon Historical Society, TateAustin, Inc., the Austin History Center and the Austin History Center Association. Photo, Music, and Script editor on the project is Karen Riles, African American Neighborhood Liaison with the Austin History Center. |
| Apply: | Supervisor: Karen Riles, Karen.riles@ci.austin.tx.us 512-974-7390
Austin History Center
African American Neighborhood Liaison
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| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Multi-media Conversion Project [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2005-06-11 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Community Outreach |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Using two existing slide shows, one on 19th Century Austin and one on 20th Century Austin created by the Austin History Center, convert the shows to multimedia displays that can be loaned to the public for public display.
Both of the current slide shows are intended to be narrated in face-to-face full frontal presentations. This conversion will require thought and redesign of the concept for presentation as a loan or presentation using a PowerPoint set up or both.
Materials highlighted in the slides shows illustrate the power of archives and tell the story of Austin, Texas in Travis County. They would be used in their multimedia formats in school classrooms, at luncheon meetings, and even perhaps could be checked out of public libraries.
End product after analysis and design would be the two slide shows formatted on a media yet to be determined that might possibly include a DVD, a web site video, a PowerPoint looping show, or some other equally compelling format.
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| Apply: | Supervisor: Sue Soy sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us 512-974-7388
Austin History Center Manager
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| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | AHC Presentation Development [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2004-05-25 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Marketing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Develop a multimedia expansion to the current AHC informational presentations -- redesign current material as necessary; determine the best way to integrate slides, Power Point and possibly audio and video materials; provide reasonable suggestions regarding the acquisition of new technology by the AHC. The culminating product will include: combined multimedia unit ready for use; training materials -- essentially a "how to" incorporate technology; list of suggested technology for acquisition by AHC |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Donation Guide Writer [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2004-03-12 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Collection Analysis/Development |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Project Title: Where Does This Belong? : A Guide
Using resources within the Austin metropolitan community, develop a guide or handout that guides AHC customers who might like to give materials to a museum or archive in the metropolitan area. Using existing directories from the Texas Historical Association and ACCESS, begin the process of gathering information that will list and make clear the types of material that each archive, museum, or cultural institution will accept for its collections. This handy guide will help those who want to place objects, manuscripts, books, photographs, and other materials in just the right cultural institution.
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| Apply: | see above |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Exhibits Creator [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2004-03-12 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2004 |
| Genre: | Marketing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Plan and assemble an exhibit celebrating the first 50 years of the Austin History Center AHC. The exhibit will have a digital component on the Internet, as well as a physical component onsite at the AHC. |
| Apply: | see above |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | AHC Exhibit Program: Possibilities for the Future [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2004-03-12 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2004 |
| Genre: | Marketing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Proposed Objective: Describe the history of the Austin History Center's exhibit program, including what led to its demise; ientify comparable institutions' benchmarking in exhibit programming; identify what would be necessary to reinstate the AHC's exhibits program. |
| Apply: | Contact: Sue Soy, Austin History Center Administrator
Sue.soy@ci.austin.tx.us
512 974-7388
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| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Oral History Website Creator [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Web Site |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Build an Austin History Center website for oral history. Coordinate web design with Library Department’s Information Technology staff. Feature sound clips from existing audiotapes, historical photos from the collection, and images of transcripts and transcribers at work. Provide access to AHC’s oral history holdings database though the website. Provide links to other sound and preservation related websites. |
| Contact: | Ben Grillot |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Converting Map Catalog Records [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Spring 2005 |
| Genre: | Cataloging |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Objectives -- create and implement procedures for the conversion of austin History Center's map catalog cards to MARC format for inclusion in its online catalog; produce manual detailing these procedures for use by AHC volunteers. |
| Contact: | Eric Travis |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | GIS Trainer/Developer [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Training |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Introduce Austin History Center staff to the ARCView Geographical Information System software already purchased and in place. Develop training materials and coach staff, particularly in using the system to explore 2000 Census data and neighborhood community demographics. This project will enhance the ability of the staff to assist researchers in making better use of the City’s maps and other related data that are available on the City’s website. This work will require collaboration with the City of Austin demographer and others. Mapping and description of the demographics for each of the branch libraries and the Central and History Center areas of the Austin community will assist with collection development and program planning throughout the Austin Public Library System. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Project Leader for EAD Preparation [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Administrative |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Capstone student will devise a project management plan and implement the plan to recruit, train, and use volunteers to mark up finding aids using EAD at the Austin History Center. This project will help develop team management skills, reporting skills, and will develop knowledge about EAD. The project is expected to result in completed finding aids for the Austin History Center as well as a training guide for Austin History Center staff in marking up existing finding aids. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Neal Douglass Negatives Collection Inventory [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Spring 2005 |
| Genre: | Grant Research and Writing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Student will inventory negatives collection and enter findings into database; the culminating product will be an electronic database detailing the inventories contents of the Neal Douglass Collection for eventual research use at the AHC. |
| Contact: | Margaret Schlankey |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| Title: | Austin Music Network Archives Processor [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-11-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Arrange and describe selected sections of the Austin History Center’s Austin Music Network Archives, a collection of approximately 10,000 videotapes of Austin and Texas musicians produced or acquired by the City of Austin’s Austin Music Network. These may include but are not limited by channel logos, celebrity IDs, edited shows, raw footage and PSAs.
§ Prepare a finding aid for these selections, making the materials more accessible to researchers.
§ Prepare the finding aid for display on the Austin History Center’s web site, with selected audio and video clips to illustrate the collection
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| Apply: | For more information call Tim Hamblin, AMN Video Archivist, 974-7305 |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Austin History Center Digital Archive Program Plan [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-08-28 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2003 |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Develop a digital archive program plan and digital archive test bed for the Austin History Center that can serve as a basis for grant proposals and are suitable for presentation to office(s)/bodies that can authorize establishment of a digital archive program at the AHC. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Austin Music Network Archives [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-01-01 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Spring 2003 |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Work with the Austin Music Network Archives -- arrange, describe, and display on web site.,My Capstone project will consit of the work of arranging and describing portions of the Austin Music Network Archives (AMNA), housed at the Austin History Center, and creating a website for the Center highlighting their Austin music related collections with the AMNA as the focus of the site. This project will allow me to incorporate skills learned throughout the program from several classes (Introduction to Archival Enterprise Moving Image Archives, Preservation Management, etc.), will make the AMNA more accessible to the Austin community, and will allow me to develop web creation and digitization skills. I also hope to perform a needs assessment on the AMNA, providing the Center with a plan to care for the archives in the coming years. The project will culminate in a Web page accessible to the Austin community that will teach them about the Austin music scene, specifically the AMNA and the related collections at the Center. It will include digitized video and sound clips, and scanned images of Austin music related photographs and ephemera. The project will also allow the Center better control of the archives and will make the collection more accessible and easily searchable b staff and researchers alike.
Original Description: Work with the Austin Music Network Archives -- arrange, describe, and display on web site. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Oral History Program [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2003-01-01 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Database |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Transcribe interviews and develop database to manage collection.
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| Contact: | Biruta Kearl |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | AHC Presentation Development [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-10-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2003 |
| Genre: | Marketing |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Develop a multimedia expansion to the current ACH informational presentations -- redesign current material as necessary; determine the best way to integrate slides, Power Point and possibly audio and video materials; provide reasonable suggestions regarding the acquisition of new technology by the AHC. The culminating product will include: combined multimedia unit ready for use; training materials -- essentially a "how to" incorporate technology; list of suggested technology for acquisition by AHC. |
| Contact: | Biruta Kearl |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Sanborn Map Digitization [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-10-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Summer Whole 2006 |
| Genre: | General Library |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | The outcome of the project will be: thirty of the Sanborn Austin maps shall be digitized and made accessible through a browser-based interface; metadata for each map shall be provided as an SGML file and shall be entered into the Austin History Center's Visual Resources Database. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | AHC Portal to Texas History Project [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-10-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Summer Whole 2004 |
| Genre: | General Library |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Establish selection criteria and evaluate options for establishing an AHC Portal to Texas History Website in conjunction with the University of North Texas Portal to Texas History project using the AHC Archives and Manuscripts and Photography Collections. Recommend the top three collection choices, evaluate and select materials for digitization, prepare or revise the finding aids for these choices (depending on size) and mark up the finding aids in EAD. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Grant Timeline and Grant Preparation [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-10-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Fall 2004 |
| Genre: | Administrative |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Using resources available in libraries and in online databases, prepare a comprehensive timeline listing potential grant opportunities and their deadline dates to illustrate grants that are available to local history institutions such as the Austin History Center. The grant opportunities will address preservation, housing, digitization, arrangement and description, and community outreach presentations. Some of the grants will require listing of potential collaborators and detaild definition of project ideas. As a part of the project, the student will prepare at least one grant presentation and proposal. |
| Contact: | Sue Soy |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Newspaper Indexing Software [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-10-02 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Administrative |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Evaluate options for indexing software to index back issues of the Austin American Statesman. Recommend the one that would best meet the reference needs of the Austin History Center staff and researchers, while being compatible with the technical requirements and capabilities of the Austin Public Library. This would make available electronic files of previously indexed articles as well as allow further indexing of back issues, better meeting researcher and staff needs.
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| Contact: | Eric Travis |
This project has expired and is displayed for archival purposes only.
| This Project Has Been Filled |
| Title: | Image Database Developer [ more details ] |
| Submitted: | 2002-09-24 00:00:00 |
| When: |
Open |
| Genre: | Archives |
| Salary: | Unpaid |
| Desc: | Visual Resource Metadata Database and Accompanying Image Conversion
Develop a Visual Resources database using Microsoft Access and enter metadata into the Austin History Center database. Develop metadata manual, which includes a data dictionary and procedures for creating and entering metadata. Create and enter metadata for digital images of the Austin History Center using metadata dictionary and guidelines for Dublin Core, technical and administrative metadata generated by the Austin History Center. Scan images not already scanned using Adobe Photoshop software and a Microtek or Epson scanner. Train Austin History Center staff in creating metadata and entering it into the visual resources metadata database. If time allows, develop a database of the 500 most popular images ordered from the Austin History Center in the past using Microsoft Access.
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| Apply: | Contact to discuss: Margaret Schlankey — 974-7392 — margaret.schlankey@ci.austin.tx.us
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| Contact: | Margaret Schlankey |
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