We’re very excited to announce our YouTube channel is alive and kicking. Several years in the making, we finally got everything set up and the first round of videos are available. These videos, along with more detailed information, will be cataloged in our online collection – so anyone searching the collection will be able…
We are ringing in 2013 with some updates to our online collection. We are now running a new version of the Omeka software that we use to manage our digital archives. What this means to you is that searching our archive is now faster and more accurate than ever before. We’re still tweaking around…
We were offline for a few hours this morning, but we’ve successfully upgraded our Omeka software that runs the online collection archives. We’re still testing things out, but overall it looks good. We also made a few changes to the database that should make some searches go much faster.
One of the truly rewarding aspects of our work here at the Historical Society, and in particular for the team that is working to catalog and put our collection online, is the connections that we are helping others make – with families and with people who share interests in things historical. One of those came…
Like a number of small local historical collections ours has known some moments when circumstances combined to create a situation where some portion of the collection was put at risk. While stored the lower level of Maynard Town Hall for over 30 years there were at least two events where water damaged some portion of…
This soul-crushing winter has had one bright spot: we have been making phenomenal progress on the society’s online catalog (collection.maynardhistory.org). We recently passed 500 publicly viewable items and we have another 800 other items in the database that we are working on behind the scenes — with more being added every week. We estimate…
We were so happy with how the automatic text recognition worked on the 1971 history book I went back and did a pass over the 1921 Gutteridge book. It, also, worked pretty well and I have uploaded the book with the text. For those who don’t know what I’m yabbering about, the documents we are…
We’ve just completed the digitization of nearly 40 video tapes in our collection. The majority of these are recordings of various Society programs, but some document interesting events from our town’s history. If you have a videotape of historically significant event / subject / person related to Maynard, please let us know about it…
If any of our readers had visited the Society in the past 10 years or so while we were still in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall you might have noticed some fairly large wooden structures tucked in the corner collecting dust. These were pieces of a loom that came from a Fairfield Street…
Maynard residents can directly help support the preservation of local history by voting in favor of Article 7 (Community Preservation Funds Appropriation) at the Special Town Meeting on May 19th. There are 3 historical preservation projects included in this article. One of the projects is a grant to professionally survey the historical collection of the…