iSchool Capstone

Telling Our Stories: Family Photo Archiving Guide

Project tags:

archives & special collections

community engagement & outreach

content & digital asset management

Project poster

As part of the Oregon Folklife Network’s “Telling Our Stories” online toolkit for educating the public on how to document, archive, and share their history, I created a how-to guide for archiving and retaining value in historic family photographs, using LIS best practices. The guide covers photo preservation basics, looking for themes to assess, organize, and digitize your collection, and collecting and sharing your stories through photos. The "Telling Our Stories" Family Photo Archiving Guide helps individuals to recognize their own stories and connections to history and the value that individual and collective experiences bring to the cultural heritage landscape.

Project participants:

Sheila Rabun

MLISOnline