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In the beginning …
University of North Texas Libraries
Serves as a digital gateway to Texas history collections throughout the state.
Provides information for students, teachers, historians.
Offers libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives guidance.
Delivers TEKS curriculum materials for educators
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Collections: Fort Bend Museum
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2300 images
from Fort
Bend County
Collections: Lorenzo de Zavala Online:
Epressario, Statesman and Texas Revolutionary
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De Zavala
materials
from ten
institutions
In English,
Spanish and
French San Jacinto Museum of History
Collections: Denton’s Courthouse on
the Square Museum
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Harpool
Farm
Collection:
taken by
H. F.
Browder,
county agent
in Denton
Co. in 1920s
Museums we’re working with through
current grant projects
•The Star of the Republic Museum
•Clark Hotel Museum
•Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum
•Weslaco Bicultural Museum Society
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Collections: Gammel’s Laws of Texas
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Current: 16 volumes,
26,500 pages of content
2006-7: Will digitize the
remaining 16 volumes,
for a total of 48,000
pages of content.
Collections: Dallas Historical Society
J. L. Patton Collection
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Collections: Dallas Historical Society
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Brazos River: Lock and Dam #8, 1916
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New interfaces we are testing, the beta stuff
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New interfaces we are testing, the beta stuff
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Portal Services for Educators
Primary Source Adventures provide TEKS
guided lesson plans using primary sources.
Each Primary Source Adventure includes
objectives, assumptions, materials,
anticipatory set, instructional input, guided
practice, and assessment activity for each
lesson plan.
The Primary Source Adventures are online,
they are freely accessible 24 hours a day.
Materials can be shown on audio visual
equipment in the classroom, or
downloaded and printed as convenient
handouts.
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Portal Services for Educators
Primary Source Adventures: Wichita and Comanche Villages
Services for Partners
•Best Practices
•Archival Storage of Master Images
•Workshops
•Hands-on metadata training
•Online Tutorials
•Assistance locating funding
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Services for Partners: Best Practices
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http://www.library.unt.edu/digitalprojects/default.htm
Services for Partners: Workshops
•As members of the Digital Libraries Interest
Group, will have a full-day preconference
workshop at TLA (Houston), April 25, 2006.
•Or schedule a full-day workshop at UNT
Libraries. Currently scheduled: May 5, 2006.
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Services for Partners:
Archival Storage of Master Images
•Research for the National Digital Information
Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
•Migration
•Where are your images 20 years from now?
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Dallas Historical Society Fort Bend Museum
Services for Partners:
Assistance locating funding
• Advice on potential funders
• Consultation on grant writing
• Budgeting for digitization
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Future goals . . .
More collaborative partners
Add Primary Source Adventures.
Grants
Research
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Questions?
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