Local History Digital Archive
Working Together; Looking at Our Past
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 Partnering
with the
Roselle
History Museum, the Library has
digitized historical
artifacts that illustrate the growth and development of Roselle,
IL.
The History Museum maintains a large collection of
original photographs and documents.
Digitizing the collection not only serves to preserve it,
but also to organize and index it.
In addition, digitizing makes it possible to present the
collection on the Internet as a searchable database, accessible
to anyone with a computer and Internet access.
Searching the
database:
-Display
All Images: leave all of the search fields at their default
and click on the Search button near the bottom of the Search
page.
 -Keyword
Search: type in names, subjects, locations, filenames, or
any other term; all the information input with all of the images
is indexed and searchable by keyword.
-Specific searches: pull-down menus provide searching for
specific business names, family surnames, History Museum
folders, and general subjects.
-Date Range Search: specify a range of dates to search
between. Use the mm/dd/yyyy date format.
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About “Date of Document” statements:
Most of the images that were scanned for this project did not
include specific date information; many had no date reference at
all. The following general rules were used throughout the
database:
 --If
no date was available, use 1/1/1900 (for consistency, so that
all of these undated items could be retrieved in one search).
--If a decade was indicated, but no specific year, use
1/1/[decade] (e.g. 1/1/1910, 1/1/1940).
--If a specific year was given, use 1/1/[specified year] (e.g.
1/1/1936, 1/1/1949).
--If a specific month and year was given, use [month]/1/[year]
(e.g. 5/1/1958, 10/1/2001).
--If a specific date was given, use the specified date (e.g.
2/17/1992, 6/30/2003).
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Image Quality:
The images in this collection were digitized using the “best
practices” suggested by the Illinois State Library. The History Museum and the Library each retain high
quality archival copies of all of the images presented in this database.
 Images
were scanned at 600dpi in 48-bit color.
Each image file was saved in two formats: for the
History Museum's archival copy (and the Library’s
backup copy), the files were saved in uncompressed TIFF format
and stored on ultra-high quality CD-ROMs; for
the Internet display copies, the image files were reduced to 15%
their original scanned size and saved in JPEG format. The
resulting images then were only 5% the file size of the original
scans. Thumbnails are created dynamically from these images to
be no wider than 150 pixels.
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Credits:
Library Executive Director, Ken Gross, wrote the original grant
proposal.
Roselle History Museum provided the original photographs and
historical information.
Roselle Public Library provided the hardware (Epson
Perfection 3200 Photo scanner) and software (Document Storage System (DSS), from COMvantage
Solutions, Prospect Heights, Illinois).
History Museum staff, Joan Beauprez, Jim Benson,
and Joyce Kuhlmann organized and scanned the photographs.
Library staff, Bonnie Duncan, Julie Bosten, Marilyn Chraca, Lynn
Dennis and Ken Gross, indexed the images and uploaded them to
the database.
Web access to the SQL database is provided by Computer
View, Inc., Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Automation Coordinator/Technical Services Department Head, Lynn
Dennis, coordinated the project, trained the participants and
designed this website.
Tom Glunz, of COMvantage Solutions, designed the Web interface to the
database.
This project was funded by a LIBRARY
SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT (LSTA) GRANT administered and
awarded by the Illinois State Library.
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