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Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project

November 27, 2017 By FromThePage

A lovely article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress about James Ambuske, one of our collaborators at UVa, and how they are using FromThePage:   “Here in the Law Library, we’re looking for ways to disseminate our collections and make them more widely known,” Ambuske said. “Particularly after the events of early August here in Charlottesville, we’re trying to … [Read more...] about Collaborative effort drives UVa Law Library transcription project

Finding Fine Art and Historical Images for Social Media Uses

September 21, 2017 By FromThePage

My new favorite way to find images for facebook and blog posts is to search the Google Arts & Culture site. (Click the magnifying glass at the top right of this page) I search for "magnifying glass" and after poking around the results find The Senses by Philippe Mercier at the Yale Center for British Art: I follow the external link and find the painting at the … [Read more...] about Finding Fine Art and Historical Images for Social Media Uses

Finding Transcribers for the Yaquina Lighthouse Project

March 13, 2017 By FromThePage

Finding Similar Pages in Google

One of our recent projects on FromThePage is the Yaquina Lighthouse Collection of documents from the National Archive.  I helped the team at Yaquina brainstorm ways to publicize their project and wanted to share that process here as well.  This was in addition to their existing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram publicity. I would contact the people/groups you find below with … [Read more...] about Finding Transcribers for the Yaquina Lighthouse Project

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