Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: The William J. Huebner, Jr. PapersEvery once in a while, an entire collection comes our way, lovingly organized and preserved, complete in its story and ready to be shared…4 min read·Oct 3, 2022----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: Half a million words from Frank HadsellThe intention is sincere enough: I think I’ll keep a diary.4 min read·Jun 13, 2022----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: The Avon Library time travels with The Lure of the Litchfield HillsToday we are excited to bring you the fifth post from Tina Panik, Reference & Adult Services Manager at the Avon Free Public Library in…3 min read·Nov 22, 2021----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: Avon’s History Room Disaster PlanIt seems ironic to be discussing a Disaster Plan while we’re in the middle of a world-wide disaster, Covid-19. Yet the pandemic isn’t the…3 min read·Apr 5, 2021----
Tina PanikPandemic Projects: Avon’s digitizes their 10,000th itemThe Avon Free Public Library joined CTDA in December 2014, the fourth entity to do so, and added our first item to the repository (an…2 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: Avon’s history collection meets Bette CrockerFour years ago, our reference librarians sat down with Moira Conlon, CT Traveling Archivist, to create a chronology of work for our…3 min read·Oct 26, 2020----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: Avon’s second digitization adventureWhat do you get when you cross a pile of PDFs with a bunch of jpegs? If you guessed “a newspaper content model,” then you’ve guessed…3 min read·Jul 6, 2020----
Tina PanikinConnecticut Digital Archive ConnectPandemic Projects: Avon’s first digitization adventureYou know those collections that always remain in a pile in your archives? The ones where “miscellaneous” is a both a description and a…3 min read·May 19, 2020----