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Title: We Can Do It All Online, Cant We


1
We Can Do It All Online, Cant We?
  • Drew Smith, MLS
  • Tampa Library,
  • University of South Florida

2
Americans 65 and older
  • 22 use the Internet (February 2004 survey,
    Pew Internet American Life Project)

3
Americans 65 and olderabout the same as other
adults
  • e-mail
  • health info
  • financial info
  • games
  • religious info
  • phone calls

4
Americans 65 and olderless often than other
adults
  • search engines
  • researching products/services
  • hobby/interest info
  • weather
  • news
  • surfing the Web for fun
  • government info
  • buying products
  • travel reservations
  • political news
  • sports info
  • downloading games, videos, pictures
  • instant messaging
  • online banking
  • online auctions

5
Americans 65 and oldermore often than others
  • Researching family history/genealogy

6
Impact of tech on genealogy
  • Late 70s thru early 80s the PC
  • Late 80s thru early 90s the Internet
  • Late 90s thru now the Web

7
Two warring camps?
  • Some traditional genealogists - Nothing online
    can be trusted.
  • Some newer genealogists I can do it all
    online.

8
An archive will have to
  • Convince the traditionalists of the value of
    the archives digital collections, and teach how
    to use them.
  • Convince the newbies of the value of the
    archives print/microfilm collections, and teach
    how to use them.

9
Best practices
  • Demonstrate how to combine the use of digital
    and print collections to get the most out of each

10
Starting at home
  • Help genealogical patrons learn how to preserve
    their own one-of-kind documents (including how to
    digitize them)

11
Archives can
  • Teach preservation
  • Teach digitization
  • Teach organization
  • Teach how to create oral histories
  • Encourage donation

12
Published sources
  • Online catalogs (your own and others)
  • Print materials (family/local histories)
  • Digital book/manuscript collections
  • Websites for new and used books
  • PERSI (to locate print articles)

13
Newspapers
  • Online databases for current and historical
    newspapers
  • WorldCat combined with local library catalogs to
    locate holdings of print/microfilm

14
Census, Vital Records, Directories
  • Online census, military, ships passenger lists,
    indexes to other records
  • Print/microfilm vital records, city directories,
    phone books

15
Archives, Courthouses, Cemeteries
  • Archive/courthouse websites
  • Scanned documents
  • Online indexes
  • Visit for print/microfilm holdings
  • Cemeteries online, indexes, print, tombstones

16
Future
  • More book scanning, some periodicals?
  • More newspapers scanned
  • Digitization of FHL microfilm, and indexing
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