Re: AIS Library

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

In regards to digitalizing the library, work in essence has already begun. The AIS bulletins are being digitalized by an outside firm hired by John Jones so they can be put on to the new EMembers site. Images are being scanned by Janet Smith and are being displayed in programs and on the Iris Encyclopedia, and HIPS has been active through the efforts of Mike Unser in getting many old catalogs and stuff onto their site. Although There is no coordinated plan, exactly, much has been started, and the prospects look very promising. I have several people who have contacted me or Janet who are interested in donating old catalogs, images, etc. These are processed and put onto the webareas mentioned and the originals archived in the library. If you have or know of materials that could add to our collection, feel free to contact me and I will help connect you to someone who is digitalizing materials and see that that the materials are digitally accessible and archived in the library. When an AIS member dies their materials need not be trashed. I will try to get them processed with the help of members within that area.

----- Original Message -----
From: "andi rivarola" <andinsky@gmail.com>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 6:01:58 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS Library

Bob, Judy and everyone,

Thank you for providing this crucial information about digitizing the AIS
Library using funds provided by the AIS Foundation.
It makes so much sense to start moving in this direction.

This would mean a very worth while goal:* worldwide unlimited access to
library resources 24/7*.

It seems that digitization should take center stage in this project, and as
a main result we may find that many more people could actually use the AIS
Library (besides the obvious: preservation forever of all AIS materials).

Here's a company that provides digitization services, and which goal is
also social responsibility:
*
Digital Divide Data*
"When choosing DDD, our clients make a decision that benefits both their
company and the world. DDD delivers world-class, competitively priced
digitization and IT services to clients across the globe. We recruit staff
from disadvantaged backgrounds in the countries where we operate (add link
to new page in About Us). We provide jobs, education, and marketable skills
to help them overcome poverty and achieve upward mobility.."

http://www.digitaldividedata.org/services/

I don't know anyone in this company but they do provide a list of very
important clients. Anyways, I'm not endorsing this company just showing an
example of what is possible to do today.

Andi Rivarola


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM, <bobplankmail@aol.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> This discussion regarding the successor to the librarian and its location
> might well be integrated with a discussion
> of an Iris Library in Memory of Sid Dubose and Ben Hager, and its location,
> together with the possibility of starting soon to
> digitize the collection to facilitate accessibility via the Internet to the
> broader Iris World. The AIS Foundation presently has
> funds that could be applied towards these ends if all endeavors related to
> the
> library could be merged into a single long range plan.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Smith <ypauls@sti.net>
> To: aisdiscuss <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
> Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 12:03 pm
> Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] AIS Library
>
>
> Questons:
> How often are there requests for anything in the library?
> opies of something requested?
> ncoming donation to the library?
> uplications of books, bulletins, anything else?
> hat equipment does it have, i.e. copier, scanner, computer?
> Is everything inventoried?
> Thank you,
> anet Smith
> P.S. If anyone needs to see what the library looks like now Rita gave
> e her photos which I still have from the 2010 Portland visit.
> ---- Original Message ----
> rom: jijones@usjoneses.com
> o: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> ubject: [AISdiscuss] AIS Library
> ate: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:30:28 -0800
> >Anner Whitehead sends:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I have used the AIS Library from time to time. I use a lot of
> horticultural libraries, so I think I should speak to this question.
>
> Since access to this collection, including access from a remote
> location, is correctly considered a perk of AIS membership, I want to
> encourage you first to find someone with a deep commitment to member
> service and to their own self-education to run the place.
>
> I do not think engaging Presby to operate the AIS Library is a good
> idea for several good reasons, one of which is that they are now, as
> I understand it, legally operating under the aegis of a municipality,
> Essex County, New Jersey. Moreover, those gardens have their own
> unique mission, defined by the Director in conversation to me, as
> interpreting the iris collections as a living museum. I was also
> informed by the Director about a year ago in a phone conversation one
> snowy day when she called to comment on an article I'd written, that
> their institutional records and files are as yet in the basement and
> uncataloged. They have the same problems with the quantity and
> quality of volunteer staff that other organizations do, of course.
>
> I remember when I went for my first day of volunteer work, which was
> weeding herbaceous borders in an historic garden in town, my husband,
> an executive in the non-profit field, told me "Remember, a good
> volunteer always holds herself to the same standard of professional
> excellence as she would were she being paid handsomely to do the
> job." I believe he is absolutely right, although my experience
> suggests some folks never got that particular pep-talk.
>
> If you like the idea of affiliating with an institution, I suggest
> you may wish to approach the Elizabeth C. Miller horticultural
> library at the University of Washington at Seattle.  Tell them you
> want to partner, have a unique and nationally significant collection,
> and just need a comfortable well lit room, a generous work table,  a
> couple of chairs, the usual security, and ease of access at
> convenient hours.
>
> http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/calendar/tours_sales.php
>
> Then there is the Anderson Horticultural Library--internationally
> famous-- at the University of Minnesota.
>
> http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/library.aspx
>
> Alternately, I suggest the President call Filardi, and see if he is
> available to come back to work yet.
>
> In any case, if you cannot put the library where the researchers
> actually are,--demographics do count--then make sure you appoint a
> librarian who understands what research involves, and is energized by
> the process. Without that person you have nothing, but with the right
> person, you could operate effectively from almost any place which is
> not a  pluperfect hell hole, into which category I am reliably
> informed the current facility falls.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Anner M. Whitehead
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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