Kendall Staff Training
Hidden Gems
April 2016
Presented by Alice Dooley
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Overview: Presenting
“Special Collections,” archival and research materials available through the
HPL website.
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Description: The Houston
Public Library website under the tab, “Research”
1.
The African
American Library at the Gregory School
2.
Clayton Library for Genealogical Research
3.
The Foundation Center Funding Information network
Partner
4.
Greenburg Collection
5.
Government Documents
6. Houston
Area Digital Resources
7.
Houston
Metropolitan Research Center
8.
Houston Oral History Project
9.
The Texas and Local History Department
10. The
World Languages Collection
Hidden Gems
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Practice/Assignment (due in two weeks): April 15th
As a way to
introduce you to Digital Collections, the Houston Public Library, Houston Area Digital Archives, Smithsonian Libraries, library.si.edu/color, New York Public
Library, nypl.org/publicdomaindigitalcollections.nypl.org, the Portland State
University Library, http://library.pdx.edu/color-our-collections-february-1-5/
and other libraries, have made available pictures that are in the public domain
that you can color.
Your
assignment is to choose a picture(s), color it, and then put it in my
mailbox. A displayed of your artwork
will be put on display somewhere in the workroom.