The Internet Archive Scribe Installed at Duke Divinity School Library

On October 17, 2012 an Internet Archive Scribe Machine was transferred from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and installed at the Duke Divinity School Library. The Internet Archive Team including Gemma Waterson, Satellite Digitization Services Coordinator, Elizabeth MacLeod, Supervisor of Satellite Digitization Services, and Osamu Sueyoshi, Satelite Lead/Scribe Operation spent the day re-building the scribe and ensuring the proper technology was connected for scanning to take place. Check out these pictures from the set up!

Disessembled Scribe

Deconstructed Scribe at UNC

Gemma Handling the IT side

In the Box and Ready to Go

Walla Magic!

Osamu is Ready to Go!

Puzzle Pieces

The First Few Scans

The Durham2 Team Showing Duke Devils Pride
Left to Right: Osamu Sueyoshi , Shanee Murrain, Hannah Rozear, Elizabeth MacLeod

The Religion in North Carolina Collection is Live!

The Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection Internet Archive Page is now live and loaded with 83 items including Church Histories and Meetings, Proceedings, and Conference Reports scanned at both UNC's Wilson Library and the Duke Divinity School Library.

Check out these interesting newly loaded titles:

History of the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N.C.

The Presbyterian Orphans' Home at Barium Springs, North Carolina : an album of memories

Kingdom building by North Carolina Baptists : a brief account of the organized activities of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina 

http://archive.org/details/ncreligion

Digitization Workflow at UNC-Chapel Hill

Jency  Examining a Book for Conservation Issues

Digitization for the Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection began September 1, 2012 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jency Williams, a first-year MSLS student in the School of Information and Library Science interested in Archives and Records Management is serving as the student work for the project in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Jency's Work Station

Retrieving and preparing items for scanning by the Internet Archive Scribe machine are Jency's primary tasks as the dedicated student worker. The process of filling a book cart for digitization includes the following steps:

•  Checking the item out in the circulation system
• Pulling the item from the shelf
• Analyzing each item to make sure it is the best available copy 
• Examining the item for possible conservation issues
• Preparing the cart for the Scribe
• Sending necessary items to conservation
• Filling out a Wonderfetch form  (The "wonderfetch' is a template for communicating and attaching metadata that will be attached to the item being scanned.)

This cart is ready for Scanning!

 

Student workers will be hired to pull books at the Duke Divinity School Library and Wake Forest University in the upcoming weeks. Jency has helped set a great pace at UNC-Chapel Hill and her work is a wonderful example for student workers to come!

African Methodism in the South, or, Twenty-five Years of Freedom

Grant Awarded for the Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection

The State Library of North Carolina has recently announced an award of $110,000 in support of the Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection! As planned, the project will pull together, preserve, and provide digital access to 8,000 volumes of publications from religious bodies across the state of North Carolina. Digitization will be underway this fall. Partner institutions at Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest University, will contribute the largest portion of the items to be digitized, but the rest will come from all 100 counties (public libraries, colleges and archives) in North Carolina. The materials to be digitized range from local church histories to periodicals to clergy biographies in addition to ephemeral materials like cookbooks, event programs, and directories. Researchers and the wider public have been previously limited in their access to these collections due to the scattered locations of the items. Gathering together these materials into one digital collection will help researchers locate and make better sense of North Carolina’s diverse religious heritage. Stay tuned for more updates as we embark on this exciting digitization project! Please direct questions about the project to Hannah Rozear (Project Manager).
This grant is made possible through funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Eastern North Carolina United Methodist Conference Journals

1860-1938 North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church%2C%20South.%20North%20Carolina%20Conference%22>

1939-1967 North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Church%20%28U.S.%29.%20North%20Carolina%20Conference%22%20NOT%20subject%3A%22United%22%20NOT%20subject%3A%22Central%22>

1968-2009 North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church

<http://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Journal%20of%20the%20North%20Carolina%20Annual%20Conference%20of%20the%20United%20Methodist%20Church%22>

1897-1910 Atlantic Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church.%20Atlantic%20Mission%20Conference%22>

1897-1935 North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church.%20North%20Carolina%20Conference%22>

1940-1964 North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Central Jurisdiction

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Church%20%28U.S.%29.%20North%20Carolina%20Conference%20%28Central%20Jurisdiction%29%22>

1965-1968 North Carolina-Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church, Central Jurisdiction 

<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Methodist%20Church%20%28U.S.%29.%20North%20Carolina-Virginia%20Conference%22>

Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South

Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South includes architectural photographs of a number of North Carolina churches and religious institutions.

Project identifies 8000 volumes

We have identified over 8000 volumes (or somewhere around 1 million pages) to be digitized representing nearly every religious tradition. About 6000 of these are split between the partner libraries (Wake Forest, UNC-CH, and Duke) and the remaining 2000 are spread across some 218 libraries in and beyond North Carolina. We are currently in the process of physically inspecting the items and completing a copyright analysis.