Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Oct 3, 2022Pandemic Projects: The William J. Huebner, Jr. PapersPandemic Projects: The William J. Huebner, Jr. Papers Every once in a while, an entire collection comes our way, lovingly organized and preserved, complete in its story and ready to be shared with the world. This is the case with the William J. Huebner, Jr. papers. Holly Huebner Ryan, William’s…World War Ii Veteran4 min readWorld War Ii Veteran4 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Jun 13, 2022Pandemic Projects: Half a million words from Frank HadsellThe intention is sincere enough: I think I’ll keep a diary. Many of us abandoned the practice as soon as we began, but what if we’d stuck with it? What if we managed to record over 80 years of history with our pen? …Connecticut4 min readConnecticut4 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Nov 22, 2021Pandemic 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 Avon, CT. Under Tina’s guidance, Avon is a very active member of the CTDA Community and we are happy to highlight their work! Nostalgia beckons…3 min read3 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Apr 5, 2021Pandemic Projects: Avon’s History Room Disaster PlanToday we are excited to bring you the fourth post from Tina Panik, Reference & Adult Services Manager at the Avon Free Public Library in Avon, CT. Under Tina’s guidance, Avon is a very active member of the CTDA Community and we are happy to highlight their work! It seems…3 min read3 min read
Dec 28, 2020Pandemic Projects: Avon’s digitizes their 10,000th itemPandemic Projects: Avon’s digitizes their 10,000th item The Avon Free Public Library joined CTDA in December 2014, the fourth entity to do so, and added our first item to the repository (an image of Towpath School) on February 15, 2015. We focused on digitizing our most popular, most requested collections…2 min read2 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Oct 26, 2020Pandemic Projects: Avon’s history collection meets Bette CrockerHow do you process a collection? — Today we are excited to bring you the third post from Tina Panik, Reference & Adult Services Manager at the Avon Free Public Library in Avon, CT. Under Tina’s guidance, Avon is a very active member of the CTDA Community and we are happy to highlight their work! Four years…Archives3 min readArchives3 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·Jul 6, 2020Pandemic Projects: Avon’s second digitization adventureToday we are excited to bring you the second post from Tina Panik, Reference & Adult Services Manager at the Avon Free Public Library in Avon, CT. Under Tina’s guidance, Avon is a very active member of the CTDA Community and we are happy to highlight their work! What do…Digital Collections3 min readDigital Collections3 min read
Published in Connecticut Digital Archive Connect·May 19, 2020Pandemic Projects: Avon’s first digitization adventureToday we are excited to bring you our first guest post from Tina Panik, Reference & Adult Services Manager at the Avon Free Public Library in Avon, CT. Under Tina’s guidance, Avon is a very active member of the CTDA Community and we are happy to highlight their work! You…Avon3 min readAvon3 min read
