Making connections

Making Connections
Podcasting and Local History
Janet Reynolds
Library District #2 of Linn County
La Cygne, KS

Kansas Humanities Council connection
Heritage Grants are intended to encourage the preservation and study of local and regional cultural resources and to assist cultural organizations in developing best practices in maintaining and managing local heritage resources. Heritage grants are awards of up to $3,500 and support oral history projects, care of collections and photographs, basic research, cataloging and indexing, language preservation, and best practices.
http://kansashumanities.org/site/grants/heritage-grants.html
podcast specifics: http://kansashumanities.org/site/images/stories/2011_podcast.pdf

What does this have to do with making connections?
Allen family story
Our past plays a role in our present
Cross generational interactions
Using technology available to create stories that take the museum outside of the walls of the museum.
Dream
Durda story

What next?
More Young Historians performances
15 young historians are spending 15 hours this week researching artifacts and people in the museum.
Will perform Friday
More podcasts made based on their research
Museum is now being opened by volunteers
Looking to set up displays
Computer to catalog artifacts

If we can do it, so can you…
Check out the Kansas Humanities Grants that are available
Talk to your community members (preserve those stories)
Partner with local genealogy or historical societies
People come to the library expecting “us” to have the answers and this is just one more way to meet their needs and make valuable connections.

Local History Connection
Historical society that needs revived
Lots of stories, lots of artifacts,
Closed museum
Best kept secret in town
Looking for a way to encourage interest in museum
Group of supporters—cheerleaders

What is a podcast??
A podcast is audio content on a website that can be transferred onto an audio player, such as an iPod or other MP3 player.
I can do it, but how
Technology consultant was Craig Gerdes who has taught some classes for Baker University and had taught a class that a co-worker at school had taken.
Kevin Honeycutt from my Plurk network and Dean Mantz helped me with some of the basics.

Tools for free or next to free
Audacity
Windows Movie Maker
Zamzarhttp://www.zamzar.com/
Story about converter file
Podomatic.com

Young Historians Group
http://lacygnelibrary.org/images/final%20october%20newsletter.pdf
Research helped with podcast information
Encouraged renewed interest in museum

Making connections

by Northeast Kansas Library System on Aug 03, 2011

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