Author Archives: kgmatheny

Transcribe our letters!

Posted on December 12, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology | Tagged , | Leave a comment

UA Libraries has installed web-based transcription software (Omeka and Scripto) to enable anyone to transcribe old letters and documents online.  I’ve uploaded a box of correspondence from the Cabaniss collection (about a wealthy landowner who wanted to free his slaves … Continue reading →

1920s Advertising

Posted on December 8, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections | Leave a comment

This week’s post is the beginning of a series of blog posts looking at vintage advertising. We are starting with advertising from the 1920s. These ads have been pulled from The Rammer Jammer, a student publication of the university from … Continue reading →

Digital Services is hiring!!!

Posted on December 2, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digitization, Employment, UA History | Tagged | Leave a comment

Digital Services at the University of Alabama is hiring for two new positions: Digitization Technologist and Digital Repository Manager! For more information, or to apply, please go to http://staffjobs.ua.edu and search in the Working Title field. Digitization Technologist The Digitization … Continue reading →

Yea, Alabama!

Posted on December 1, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections | 1 Comment

Right now is an exciting time for the University of Alabama’s football team. And most Bama fans would agree that football games just wouldn’t be the same without hearing Alabama’s fight song, “Yea, Alabama!” This song was penned in 1926 … Continue reading →

The Battle of Lookout Mountain

Posted on November 21, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Cool Collections | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

This Thursday, November 24, is not only Thanksgiving Day, but also marks the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Lookout Mountain, a major turning point in the Civil War. The defeat of General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee at … Continue reading →

Come tag our photos!!

Posted on November 18, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Photographs, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

We haven’t yet branded the interface — but we have loaded the first 3 collections of images into Steve-Museum tagging software for experimentation. These are images for which we have very little description — or none at all! We are … Continue reading →

Valentine J. Oldshue Papers

Posted on November 11, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, World War I | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Today is Veterans Day, a day in which we honor our military veterans. This day began in 1919 as Armistice Day, a day to commemorate the yearly anniversary of the end of World War I. In 1954, the day was … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday John Philip Sousa!

Posted on November 4, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Sheet music | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Sunday, November 6, marks the 157th anniversary of the birth of John Philip Sousa. Sousa was an American composer and conductor and is well-known for his American military and patriotic marches. Because of his proficiency writing these types of pieces, … Continue reading →

Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Sheet music | Tagged | Leave a comment

Celebrate Halloween with some spooky pieces of sheet music from the Wade Hall Collection of Southern History and Culture! Click on the images for links to the items in Acumen.  

Automating the capture process

Posted on October 28, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digitization, Hardware, Software, Work Flow | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

As part of our ongoing efforts to develop and adopt workflow practices that increase the amount and quality of images we put into our digital archive we are always looking at new changes to our digitization process. Currently we are … Continue reading →