Stayin’ Alive (one photograph at a time) Female Drum Core, Memorial Day Parade, 1939 Melissa Campbell Director

Work Together Plainville Public Library – Provides equipment, space, copies, storage Plainville Historical Commission – Provide volunteers at Scanning Party to hand out paperwork, scan photos, and talk SAILS – Cataloging with metadata, storage with Omeka Inside Falk's Market at 111 South Street circa 1970

Nothing Fancy Any current scanner can scan at 300 dpi You probably already have 1 or 2 Give out flash drives Volunteers Promotion Shadrach Sherman House at 169 School Street in 1883.

Get Permission Permission to display photograph online via SAILS Digital History Collection and other means Donor keeps copyright For Private Study, scholarship or research and fair use. Gene Coombs and Fred Northrup standing at the Town of Plainville voting box on March 3, 1940.

Tell us Everything Meta Data form by owner Label the file and papers the same Get metadata into a spreadsheet – File name, title, subjects, description, date, contributor, original format, physical dimensions

Then it’s on to SAILS Send it to SAILS with flash drive of photographs SAILS catalogs and uploads the photos to Omeka site Might get a little creative with subjects: Minstrel shows -- Massachusetts – Plainville Sailing events--Massachusetts—Wrentham Telford Marathon Boys Race (Plainville, Mass.) F.W. Averill's Garage and Taxi Service (Plainville, Mass.) Bonfires -- Massachusetts -- Plainville Fourth of July celebrations -- Massachusetts -- Plainville Plainville Fire Department circa 1920

Where it is now? Sails Omeka Site Harvestable by the Digital Commonwealth The Plainville Historical Commission can use for display and research Personal Digital Copy went home with owner

Party on! Have A Scanning your library Low Cost High Impact Community Building Bonfire circa 1950