CourtesyMadeline Lipton viaCulture in Transit
New Yorkers have a new way to add their family ’s story to the annals of history . Culture in Transit , a project spearheaded by the Metropolitan New York Library Council , target to archive the cultural heritage of the city ’s residents by digitise memorabilia and records that could otherwise be lost to meter — old photo albums , VHS tape , and other archival textile that might be gather dust in attics or closet .
“ Many community are excluded from the nation ’s digital ethnical computer storage because they lack the equipment and technical support to contribute their story to local and home archives , ” consort to the initiative’sKnight Foundation grant summary . effect that let people to total their own photos and documents to archives “ democratise the mental process of history - making — reserve people to contribute to and help define their local account . ”
Culture in Transit ’s mobile digitisation kits allow organizers to travel around the metropolis with high - firmness digital scanner and other equipment design to add archival material to the public platter . Since mid - July , select libraries in Brooklyn and Queens have host digitisation events where local residents can bring their old photos and memorabilia and have it scan , both for the somebody ’s collection and the subroutine library ’s archive .
The documents will finally be made public as part of the Brooklyn Public Library catalog and in the archives of organizations likeDigital Culture of Metropolitan New York , theDigital Public Library of America , andQueens Memory . The task is also helping small depository library and museums digitalise their archives , providing a wealthiness of resources for succeeding historians of New York lifetime .
[ h / t : Brooklyn Magazine ]
