Tenn-Share 2007 Breakout Group Comments What training would you need to participate in the statewide digital project, Volunteer Voices? Is your institution willing to pay to support a statewide digital library? What services could Volunteer Voices provide to your institution? How can Volunteer Voices work with other digital collections in Tennessee? How could you or your institution assist in creating the statewide digital library (i.e., staff time, materials, marketing, funding, advisory board participation, etc)? How frequently would you expect delivery of new items or updates to the collection? What materials would you need to contribute materials or process your own collection? What types of materials would you like to see in Volunteer Voices (i.e., formats, subjects, etc)?

Tenn-Share 2007 Breakout Group Comments

During the Tenn-Share 2007 Conference break-out session, Volunteer Voices posed key questions, concerning sustainability, to the audience. Below are the questions and comments that the Tenn-Share attendees shared with us. (Number beside item indicates repeat statement).

What training would you need to participate in the statewide digital project, Volunteer Voices?

• Metadata
• History of Tennessee information
• Digital preservation training
• Purchase software and need guidance or consortial purchase
• Criteria that needs to be followed in digitization
• Digitization training
• Equipment
• Primary sources
• Learn your software
• Scanning standards
• Dublin Core

Is your institution willing to pay to support a statewide digital library?

• Yes-5
• Yes, 202 subscription
• Hopefully-2
• Possibly, depends on amount
• Open to proposal
• Will ask
• Most likely
• Regional libraries have no money to contribute
• No money in budget but again go for other funding sources such as “Friends” groups, individuals and private/public businesses
• Uncertain
• I would if I could but we are a regional library under  TSLA

What services could Volunteer Voices provide to your institution?

• Access to primary sources
• More information on equipment needed to dig local history and genealogy resources
• Tennessee history
• Consult with libraries who are considering digital projects
• Provide a place for elderly community members to archive their history
• Transcription of oral interviews
• Technology and know-how
• Help advertise what is available and useful for my institution
• Provide access to manuscript collections
• Training
• Marketing
• Memphis history
• Help preserve and make available local history resources
• Primary resources for K-12 education focusing on TN history
• Access to equipment—scanners, cameras, high-quality printing
• Share software package to hold images

How can Volunteer Voices work with other digital collections in Tennessee?

• Provide links
• Provide training 
• Metadata support
• Coordination
• Central consultation point
• Communication
• Construction of union list of all resources throughout the state—important for genealogical research
• Share all you have learned about the process

How could you or your institution assist in creating the statewide digital library (i.e., staff time, materials, marketing, funding, advisory board participation, etc)?

• Advisory board-2
• Content-3
• Staff time-2
• Materials
• Marketing-3
• Willing to digitize old Tennessee state materials we have, possibly in coordination with other law firm librarians
• Regional facility-4
• Space for training-2
• Downloading our collection to Vol Voices

How frequently would you expect delivery of new items or updates to the collection?

• Monthly would be good-7
• Daily/weekly ideal-2
• As available for public release-2
• Quarterly-4
• Bi-annually
• Annually-2

What materials would you need to contribute materials or process your own collection?

• Software-7
• Staff training-7
• Equipment (scanner)-5
• Personal consultation
• Need your software to talk to my software
• Hardware to convert microfilm to digital
• Book scanner
• Networking
• Flatbed scanner
• Camera
• Assessment of collection materials
• Hardware requirements

What types of materials would you like to see in Volunteer Voices (i.e., formats, subjects, etc)?

• Music
• Art
• Photographs
• Realia
• Postcards Cultural objects that can be presented from multiple angles (farm equipment 3D folk art, toys, furniture, etc.)
• Letters
• Video interviews
• Oral histories
• Sound recordings
• Scores
• Non-textural objects
• Newspapers

• 1955 and earlier versions of Tennessee code (laws) and TN public chapters not available elsewhere

• Famous people in Tennessee history
• Folk life
• Local history about Nashville State Community College
• State genealogy
• Photographs with names and stories
• Local history
• Community history
• Religion
• Civil rights
• Architecture
• Civil War stuff
• Music history
• Information of homesteads project in Cumberland County
• Interesting state and local political races
• Catherine Wiley’s story
• Maury County, Davidson battles
• Early history of state

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