Thank you for joining us for our second in our lunch and learned series this year on.
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So let me turn to our speaker today, Katherine Whalen is the Richardson Sloane Special Collection Supervisor at the Davenport Public Library.
She manages the rich collection of genealogical and local history materials at the Richardson Slope Collection Center. She received her masters of Library Science Degree at the Indiana University, and with that I'll turn it back over to Katherine
Hello, everyone. Today. It's kind of warm here in Iowa.
So it's unusual after the cold snap that we had for the last few days.
I don't know if everyone was dealing with that across the State, but I'm certainly thrilled that it's not so cold.
Yes, it looks good.
But can everyone see my screen? I just okay, perfect. So thank you so much for inviting us to share about our resources here at the resources and collections at the Richardson Sloan Special Collection Center.
We're really thrilled we've been invited to a number of places to come.
Talk about our collection. So I'm very excited that we get to share it with Igs and not everything is online.
So please consult us and your other local archives, because we do have a wealth of information.
So I am Catherine Wayland. I've been the special collection supervisor of the Denver Public Library for the last 5 years.
It's kind of flown by. So that's I think I take that as a good sign.
Very excited. We are always doing really fun things, and I hope to kind of convey a little bit of that today.
But in this presentation particularly we'll be exploring the genial resources available to family historians in our special collections as well as an overview of resources that may require a little bit more digging.
I will also delve into some specialties of special collections, as well as how researchers can access our materials available in person, and then also online.
So if you want to start the searching process before you come and visit us, you can do that for some of our collections as well as I'll also provide a brief overview of some of our services.
But that's a picture of our archives in the back.
So we have classical shelving, which we're quite proud of.
So I'll go on to the content of the presentation
So the topics that we'll cover today and a little bit more depth.
Our our history and mission of special collections are overview over genealogical resources, with some highlighting of some particular collection that might be of interest.
Same with our local history resources, and then some services and tools.
So to start off special collections first was located on the first floor of the Main library branch, in what was known as the Special Collections Room.
It began in 1892, you're not 1982.
I got my numbers, inverted. It specialized particular in art, history, music, collections, that as as best specifically focused on big spiderback and the beginning of our local history collections.
Then in 1986, special collections move to the basements with the government documents collection, and also our magazine storage.
So we kind of shifted spots. So if you haven't visited us for a while since our early days, we have grown to encompass the whole basement, which in 1,999, we had a major renovation that was funded by Alice
Richardson and Lauren, Ted Sloan.
The Sloan's health certificates. In genealogy and advanced genealogical courses from Scott Community College in Davenport.
They had, and actively engaged in genealogical and historical pursuits for over 25 years.
So they had lots of knowledge of resource, and also at a mass of major clicks which, in addition to their funding of our renovation, they also donated their genealogical collections to the library, so that really grew our collection at that time and we or happy to say that we celebrated our
Twentieth anniversary of the Rich since Loan Special Collection Center on November 20, sixth, 26, 6, 2019.
So we're we had a great party with some cake and a poem that was made for us.
So that was really fun. But we also have 5 staff members in special collections, including myself.
Our staff includes Katie Reinhardt, our special collections librarian Karen O'connor, our special Collections library assistance, Christina Amador Perez, our special clinch selections, Principal Clerk and then Amy Addressll are part time city
Archivist. So we have a really great staff that they each kind of have their own focus.
But we're all really willing and eager to help anyone who comes down in or to contact us over the phone or email.
So we really enjoy helping folks find out their genealogy and local history questions.
The Mission of the Richardson Sloan Special Collection Center is to acquire, preserve, and pro provide access to local history materials and genealogical collections.
In addition, we serve as stewards as of the city of Downport archives.
Our materials represent the Quad, city, community, the Upper Mississippi Valley region in south, some southeastern.
Iowa counties primarily
We focus on Davenport and Scott County, one can read more about our collection development policy by going to our library's website.
And so that's right on under our board of trustees policies in conjunction with this mission, we try to promote literacy and learning through primary source literacy and archival literacy.
We also encourage the study and use of local history materials at all age levels.
So we do partnerships with the local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts troops bring them in and show them how fun genealogy can be.
And the importance of it. We also engage our community by offering educational and enriching programming that meets the needs and interests of our population.
So that's just a brief overview of all that we do.
One thing, that if you ever want to come and visit us, I'm happy to, or any of my staff members are happy to provide tours of our space, so you can kind of get a sense of where to start first.
But one thing I like to say is that we're a library with it in a library.
So we're doing everything that the main library is doing.
But just in our little department. So it's really quite fun.
So our genealogical collections emphasize research in Scott County, Iowa, as well as other.
Iowa counties, in surrounding Illinois account, but we also have resources on the New England States in States that are along the migration routes used by those who settled in the Scott county area.
So we'll go over those resources to this section.
But before I get into the types of genealogical collections that we house, I would like to share that.
We also offer a beginning. Genealogy packet to any first time visitor interested in learning about family history, research, and also to anyone who wants it.
Where, you don't have to say. That's your first time user.
But it is a really great resource, that kind of.
Gives an overview of our collections, and then also any sheets that you can use while you're here.
So in the packets we include a 5 generational ancestor chart family group sheets, a city directory sheet that we've created.
So it as you're working on trying to track your ancestors and our city directories, you can use that sheet to document that we also have created a resource checklist that users can use when researching our collection.
So it's a long laundry list of resources that we have in our collections.
That people can check off as they go through them. The packet also contains some other resources which we change out and rotate quarterly or annually, depending on what season it is, but they include guides understanding the us census maps things like that then also if
You're interested in. You want more forms, genealogical forms for your family history research.
The forms are available for download on our blog, which is the primary selections from special sections.
So anyone can download them there.
Then, in our genealogical collection we also have a great abundance of books and periodicals.
These materials on family history research. They contain techniques, guides, and histories.
We have books on various ethnic groups and regional resources.
The Genealogical Collection emphasizes Scott County.
Of course, but we do have a great collection of the Mayflower families.
Connecticut, nutmegger publications like that, but then also things that resources that are along those migration routes as well and as you're using these collections, you may be that some of the books have our Scott County Iowa genealogical Society sticker
On it. So we do hold their collection and make it accessible for them.
So we get to have that great partnership with them.
And then, in addition, we also have that virtual Richardson, Sloan, Genealogical library collection as well.
With these collections, they really enable us to support our mission and expand the scope of our collections.
We also have a nearly complete set of publications from the Iowa Genealogical Society, and at least the one county history for each of Iowa's 99 counties.
So we don't just have Scott County stuff, but it's kind of sporadic, and what we do have.
But if you have any Scott County ancestors, please come visit us.
We'll probably be able to help you with something.
We also do have a collection of census indexes and microfilm.
So we do have indexes to early 3, 1920 census records and all of these books are actually searchable on our library's catalog.
So everything's been cataloged, and you'll be able to search there to see if we have anything
And then some other non traditional genealogical book books in our collections are our family memoirs, individual memoirs, family narratives.
So. Some of these I featured so we have one on finding Oscar Lane, for that was just recently done in 2,018.
We have some on our early settlers of Scott County, so Christian and Sarah Moore, Cober their ancestry that was done by their families, and then the second part of that the book 2 which covers the Partridge Roberts Jelly Wright and
Cartman and Heinz families, and then we also have one on so another family from our early settlers, which is the Andro C.
Fulton and his wife Mary. So we have lots of different resources like that in our collection that you can search for so it's a really great resource in that way.
We also have always. We also have people always donating our family, their family histories to us in their genealogy.
So that collections always growing so you can always check back and see what we have.
That's new. We also have vertical files containing genealogies and materials relating to local families.
So even if we don't have a family memoir narrative in our collection, we might be able to pull something else for you.
So always come to the service desk, and we can help you find those things that aren't necessarily open.
And on the floor for the public. But we can stop it for you as well as the Scott County Genealogical Certificates Collection.
We also have a great collection of those those were done by the Scott County, Iowa.
Genealogical Society members, and so that's a really another great resource that people have compiled a lot of information on these families that are associated with Scott County.
But you might be wondering, how do I search the library's catalog?
So we just recently upated our catalog a little bit.
So it looks different if you have used us in recently.
So it looks a little bit different. But don't fret.
We'd still have access to our old or classic catalog.
But both are able to be searched for our materials and special collections.
But the search suggestions that I'm gonna be offering today are using our classic catalog which you can access through a tab on our new catalog.
So when you go to the library's catalog you'll want to cert press, click, search, and then go down to keyword.
And then that will bring up a page that you can type in your keyword.
Search, but in the yellow it's a set option set that will actually save search options and you'll click that.
And that's where you can choose your location and your collection that you want to search.
So you'll choose down port, Main Library cause special collections, is located in the main.
Branch of the library, downtown, and then you'll like collections and choose special collections, and then you can click, set search options, and then you'll you'll have narrowed down the search to specifically our collection.
So that's really a great tool for us to get people right into the heart of our collection.
So beyond just book collections, we do have a great collection of microfilm, including our vital records.
So Scott Special Collection Center has many Scott county records, including Probate County 4 min land records.
Our first. We'll be covering our birth, marriage, and death records.
So, most of our Scott County records are arranged alphabetically, or have a running index.
So you'll be able to search them that way. They also come in a variety of formats.
So for our birth records we have record. Starting in 1880 for Iowa law.
So we have records, registers, and returns we also have delayed birth records, so if you don't find your ancestor in the normal run of things, you can check there.
So we have records of that type dating to 1,900 fiftys, and beyond so that's a really great collection to search our marriage records start in 1830 36, and they run to 19 fifties.
And beyond. So they include application certificates, records, and registers.
So you wanna check all of those when you're here.
We also have death records. And so these are starting in 1880 and going to 1,900 fiftys.
These include our records, registers, and certificates, birth and death.
Registration began in 1880 in Iowa, but a general compliance didn't really occur until later.
Between 1904 and 1,906 and 1920 and 1941.
The birth and death. Records were not required by the county, so just keep that in mind.
If you're searching for an ancestor.
During that timeframe, but we do have other vital records that are not Scott County so we have a little map of what we have in our collection.
But I wanted to kind of share what we have with you today.
We have vital records from Alan Mckee, Clayton, Delaware, Jones, Jackson, Johnson, Cedar, Clinton, Muskete, Beliza, Des Moines, Lee, Henry, Jefferson, Mahaska, Wayne, and Union Counties, so kind of a Weird Spattering.
of counties. But if you're here and you have ancestors from those regions, you can check those while you're here.
But as we're as we continue, we'll continue with our Scott County records.
So we have divorce records, probate naturalization and land.
And so some of our divorce records includes.
They include packets and records, and those date from 1854 to 1973.
Our probates include administrative bonds, guardian bonds, indexes, registers of air and estates will records, probated wills, and much more.
And these date from 1838 to 1994.
And then we also have naturalization records. These include declaration of intention.
Other just general naturalization, documents, records, and petitions.
These are dated from 1848 to 1929.
These are really interesting. Documents, but they're not really informative until 190.
6, with the establishment of the Bureau of Immigration Naturalization, where they really become a lot more interesting to a genealogist because it shares a lot more information.
And then, prior to 1922, women and children.
Automatically became used to citizens when they're husbands or fathers.
Did so. That's another thing, too. Consider as you're looking for your ancestors.
Land records. We have auditors, land office record books, deed, records grantor grantee indexes for deds and mortgages, town lot records, and a lot more.
These date from 1,838 to 1918.
In our collection
Then we have miscellaneous Scott County records.
So just kinda let you read those as you go up through them.
We have corner reports, old age, pension dockets, widows, and mothers and widows.
Pension records, soldier just soldiers, discharged records from World War.
One district court records, property tax rest records and criminal case files.
So lots of different types of records that you can search and see if you have that you can find answers in.
Then continue on with some misleading other miscellaneous records.
We have law and equity case files, some more court packets from the District court, a new Numerical Index District Court cases found on microfilm and our a really good collection that we have that we digitized in the early 2 thousands are our Scott County board of
Supervisor Minutes and the City Council proceedings. Not only for Davenport, but also for all the cities in Scott County.
So if you have ancestors that were a part of the early sale settlement of any part in Scott County, you can see if they had participated in their local government through the city council procedure and minutes
But as we go on we're going into the more.
What other topics. So our church and semiconductor records.
So these some of them have are in book format, and some are some have been microfilm, so we do have records of baptisms and marriages.
Some of the books include indexes and histories and trans.
Copies of the records of various churches in the region, and then also we have a great collection of cemetery records, so these contain histories and tournament records, maps of the various cemeteries in Daven important greater Scott county and also trans
Grade, stone, trans inscriptions. So lots of great resources for you.
Here, then our newspaper collection. It dates back to 1838 for Davenport newspapers.
It includes various titles published daily, weekly, morning and evening.
There are some gaps in the and and 8 9 to in 1918.
But we do have newspapers up to present day, so we still, by our quad city times and have that available on microphone.
We also have a local news index that you can search to access those and search across the newspaper.
Some of our newspapers are also in German, and so those are also published a variety of times.
So daily or weekly. But that's another great resource.
We do have some county regional and state newspaper. So we have the Scott County Tribune or Scott press.
The Catholic messenger. We have some from across the river, like the leader and the port Byron globe, but we also have Muskete and Clinton and Burlington papers.
We do also have a nice run of the Des Moines.
Then we have a really great collection of military records.
These include histories, records from various wars, including civil World War, one World War Ii.
And Korea. It also has. We also have records of enlistment records, rosters and registrations.
These also include our black clock, war muster roles.
So if you're interested in that time period, we have documents for that.
We also have the compiled war records and indexes.
One in particular, the 8, 1784 to 1811, so that in between the Reary Board and the War of 1812 we also have returns for that rock, island, arsenal, and current.
Camp Mcclellan, The brand army of the Republic records role of honors.
History's from camps that were in Davenport during the Civil wars or rendezvous camps, including Kant Mcclellan, and then we also have done a number of oral histories with people who served so that's another great resource then one way to kind of
Search across our collections that may have been indexed is our local database. Search.
This index can help you search across multiple things which is right now, we have 14 different databases that you can search across, including that local news index that I mentioned.
We have a listing of our some photographs in our collection that you can search, known as our hostedler photos.
You can search across obituaries that we've indexed that county marriage.
Sergeants and license returns. Marriage announcements.
That could be found in the newspaper. Information from our Gazette newspaper so that's a early 1819 century newspaper.
And then also you can search our Iowa State censuses from 1856, 1885, and 1925.
We also have an index for us veterans from Company K during the Civil War, and then enlistments, records, and mortality schedules and probate, and of course we have a catch.
-all named Scott County. Unusual sources, but we do have some exciting news about this database.
It's actually currently getting worked on to provide a new way of searching these.
And so we'll be adding more content to this.
And so please stay tuned for, announcing later this year.
So we will now jump into our local history resources that we have in our special collections.
So first off our book collections, we have over 20,000 books in our collection, and so they are on a variety of topics.
So our histories include topics from architecture to nature.
We have works from local authors in Iowa fiction.
So just books that are set in Iowa, music and art collections, our cookbook collection is relatively new to be catalyzed.
It will in our an archive collection. So now it's a little bit more accessible to everybody.
Our. We have local government documents. So we have book formats of various school board, resources, city or damport resources, and Scott County records as well.
We also have a collection of Buffalo Bill, related materials, and then we also have a close stack collection featuring local rare books.
And all these books can be searched through our libraries catalog.
So continuing with some other books and periodicals that might be of interest, we do have a really great run of our city and county directory these day back to 1855.
To present. We do have some rock Island and molene city directories available.
We do have a number of county histories include our 1882, 1910, and 1,990.
One histories we do have a great run of the annals of Iowa, and the palimpsest.
So if you'd like to just look at the book in hard or in physical format instead of online, you can come.
Use those we do have runs of our 2 local clubs papers.
So our container club is the mail as a group for gentlemen.
They date from 1,896 to present those are available on our shell.
The Tuesday Club is the Women's Club.
Both contain information about the area, but they also contain papers on whatever the members were interested in at the time, and wanted to present so it was a an intellectual club that fostered research and curiosity about the world and then they shared it with people our Tuesday clubs.
Hey! Papers do day back to 1892, and those are in our in our archives, and manuscript collections.
So those are some really neat, interesting collections that might be of interest to you.
School records and collections. So not all of these are online.
Yet so we do have a really comprehensive collection of our Black Hawk Yearbook for the Davenport High School Collection.
So these. This collection contains materials from various levels of education, including primary middle school, secondary, and then tertiary school levels.
These also include public and private institutions. So we have different formats in our collections.
So we have yearbooks, alumni directories, report cards, photographs, teacher association records, student workbooks and awards.
So they kind of range and span across our collection from Ephemra to archive manuscripts to books.
But we can certainly help point you in the right direction.
If you're interested in searching those collections, then well, dive into our archive and manuscript collection.
So we collect specifically 2 dev port and Scott County history.
So if there is an archival selection that's primarily about another region, we try and point the person to donate to those areas so that it can be a little bit more meaningful to that community to be able to search their records that document.
Their history, but they are organized primarily as personal papers, records created by organizations, societies, or political or fraternal clubs, and and also businesses.
And then we also have this collections which are, can be subject based or based on the individual's particular collecting patterns.
So this organization is really based on how the materials were created or acquired.
By the donor, and then by us, and then with these we have finding aids and can container lists that have been created for a lot of our collections, and we're still actively trying to process all of our collections, because as you can see, in this picture we have a lot
Of information that we want to make here available to our public.
So they all have records, but they might not be as complete as we would want them to be.
But some examples of elections that we have our our Davenport Women's club.
So they were started in the early 19 hundreds, and they kind of ended in, I believe, 1,900 ninetys just due to waning membership.
We have the American Legion Auxiliary, that for Davenport unit Number 26 or a Linda Hen hand paper collection, hybrid Herburnian Society and German Society papers.
Ladies, industrial releases, and then we also have our Downport Union veterans of the Civil War collections as well, and then, as I mentioned before, we are a designated archives for the city.
Up to import. So we
Some of the city's historical records to provide better preservation of an access to them.
So some of these collections include our Parks department record, city Council minutes, and proceedings.
Our board, Davenport Bridge Commission records and minutes, or down Port Levy in commission records building permit, stating from about 1,923 to 1970, they have been microfilm.
So they're accessible to everyone. So essentially, if you have questions on whether or not we have something contact us, or you can also search our archive and manuscript catalog, which I'll show you how to in a few slides, so some formats that you might find in our
Archive and manuscripts plays our correspondence, dialogue, diaries, and journals, business documents and receipts, postcards, photographs, writings, and much more.
I like to say that we have a at least one copy of every format.
That's an existence. I don't know if we have any wax recordings, but it it'd be nice to see if we to get one in our collection and complete it.
And so when highlight, a couple of archive and manuscript collections that might be of interest, or to show you examples of what we have in our collection.
So this collection is the Corbin manuscript collection.
It's documents, central and western Massachusetts, covering around 1850 to 8, 1650 to 1850.
It contains transcribed vital records, Bible records, family histories, and they're available on microfilm.
And then some on paper. So this is just one example kind of documenting the Corbin family during this at in this place, and then at this time, then, we have some other.
Okay, and manuscript collections that may be of interest.
So the ancient order of the Hybridians meeting minutes, those range from 1897 to 1909.
So there is a photo copy of the original legend book, and it also includes role calls members, lists and addresses in handwriting minutes.
So if your ancestor might have been a part of that group, you can search that and see what they were up to at that time we have.
The David Adams. Genealogical Collection. This includes over 28% boxes of portraiture and genealogical documentation associated with the Sap staff room.
Suitor, Morgan Ward, and Adams, family of Scott County.
Primarily these families were from liquor, Iowa, but the collection and the compilations of research came from a long time.
Scott county, genialogical member who designated that the Society was the recipient of this genealogical collection.
So it all has really great resources for those interested in family history.
Then we have our Mueller, and Kohler family histories, materials.
This collection includes photographs, memorabilia, correspondence, newspaper clippings relating to the molar and cooler families.
There is a bound book of photos of the Coler home on Brady and Locust Streets, and also it includes us file of genealogical resource.
Recently that the staff has done about the families. So those are all available to you.
If you come in, then we also have the Don and Marita southward collection, and this contains books, professional, genealogical work, per personal genealogy, and then a number of other associated collection topics that are related to their research so that's something to
Dig into. Then we also have a Lawson, Jennings, Mandel, and Boxing Field Family History Collection.
This includes photocopies of genealogical family group sheets.
I obituaries, photos, marriage and death certificates for these families, and then we also have the shake family photos, genealogy and records.
And so this collection contains portraitures of the screen family members from local photographers, and also the genealogical materials for this family.
So, if if you have any of these ancestors come in check, these collections out.
But you can also search our collection through our archive and manuscripts.
Call. You can search by keyword, title, creator, subject notes, and identifiers.
So, if you have your list of your family names, you can search just by those it should pull up any collections that are associated with those names.
You can also just browse the collections by selections, subject and name so it's a really great resource.
It's just archives that Downport library.com, and then you'll have access to all those great collections that aren't cataloged in our library catalog.
Then we have a really wonderful photograph collection of over 60,000 images of Deven, Port Scott County, and Quad City area.
People. In places a large collection that we just recently digitized.
Everything is our host, seller, and free studio collection in Devonport.
It was located on Brady Street. So they've photographed not just only DAB Import and Illinois Quadsie people in places, but they also had people come from Muskete and elsewhere to have their photos taken while they were here so
that's one of our biggest collections. But these are great resource.
And so these are some of the photos that are in our collection.
So we have. We do have pictures of kitties and families, and portraits of couples, and all that sorts of fun, stuff that you can search through.
So a couple of other examples of photograph selections add those special collections.
Is the Stab Family Collection. This contains the family names of Brown and Wilson, too, so you can see that we have a photographic album, and then some tin types with really great identification of these people as well, so that's a really great photograph collection.
That we have, and then we also have the Loris Council, 532 nights at Columbus Collection.
And this one is really impressive because it has prints from 1915 of their members. And they're labeled so you can see kind of trace people's
Who were who belonged to this. So if your ancestor was Catholic, and they had a marriage at a Catholic church, and they, you could find them in the Catholic Church record, and then you can go and see if the husband was a part of the night's of Columbus so that's a
Really great cross collection collaboration. Then we also have this wonderful photograph of our old settlers of Scott County, Iowa.
This montage was done by Wp. Egbert in 1,866.
And what's really great about it is that he's identified all the the folks that are pictured here, and so you can come down and see this in our collection.
So for all those things that we've digitized like the Hostedler collection, where they'll end up is our Upper Mississippi Valley digital Image Archive.
And so not all the hostileler photographs are uploaded yet, just because it takes a lot of transcribing.
But we do have a lot of content on here, so not only is Downport Public Library, special collections, photographs on here, but also muzzer public public library, August Anna in a number of libraries and historical societies and Uses across this region, have content on this so I
Hi! Encourage anyone to go, check it out, and you get to see this great collections from our 1940 Corn husking compition that we held in Davenport.
So he's getting ready to host the corn
But then we have more so. We have maps and architectural drawings, so we do have maps, plots, atlases from our architectural collections.
We have elections from our priesthood, clip free through Construction Company, brings temple and burrows, architectural for firm drawings, and so these help document our built environment.
We do have someborn and fire fire insurance maps from 188-61-8920n microfiche, 1910 and 1956.
So we have updates up until, like the seventies for our sandbox.
So that's really great. We do have a few copies of early Scott County plant maps to help trace movement in this area and development.
But all of our published maps are actually searchable in our library's catalog, and then the rest of the collection will actually be available in our archive and manuscript collection.
But we're still cataloging things. So just come to the desk.
If you have any questions about our maps and our
Then another click. Oh, before I happen to ephemeral, this is our map or Atlas sand, so you can go and check out all those really great resources.
Some extra maps, and then that map of the area in Downport known as rockingham.
It was a early city when this area was developing, but then it that absorbed into Davenport so that's our on our west end of town.
Then we have a great ephemeral collection which you'll also had.
Some come to the desk to search, but this one contains posters.
Ticket stops, programs, calendars, political fires and business flights, and more.
So this collection is truly made up of items that were typically written or printed, that didn't really have the expectation of being useful.
For a really long time, so they had short term. Your usefulness and popularity.
So they were essentially created for a specific purpose, and didn't expect to be around for very long likable.
So come, check those things out. We also have a great collection of audio visual and oral history collections.
So these contain musical and sound recordings, films and video recordings, and also oral history recordings or oral history clickions.
Our our searchable through our archive manuscripts.
Click, catalog, other ones can be searched on our Upper Mississippi.
Digital image archive under the Bigs Museum.
So that is a collection that we recently had a grant to digitize.
We have the big Spider Back Museum collection here.
There archives in manuscript collections, and so we provide access through our space for those collections.
While you. Then you can go visit the next museum and see all the wonderful artifacts that they have on display, and those are currently available in house on the Upper Mississippi.
Digital image, archive. So lots of great variety of resources in our collections.
And then another, really great resource that I've mentioned is our primary selections from special collections.
Blog, so this not only has a weekly blog post that we write discussing everything from collections that we have interesting stories that we found in our collections or newspapers, but we also have a nice FAQ resource for beginning a beginning genealogy workshop called main menu those forms that I
Was mentioning, and much more, then we'll hop into our services and tools.
So reference reproduction? We do both of those things.
So we do make copies of records for people, though we do charge $3, we do use that money to help purchase additional materials for our collection.
So it's and you get up to 5 pages.
So if you have, like a probate record, it'd be $3, and then, if it was like 10 pages, there's a little bit extra for those extra pages.
We also do in-depth research services that cost $15.
And that's $15 per hour. But it's a very generous hour.
So, and you can set how much you want to spend, and we'll work within whatever we come up with.
So it's a really great resource for those who can't necessarily come and visit us in person, so we'll take on that task of researching for you.
We also do reproduction. So we reproduce images, textual materials, audio visual materials.
We do charge $10 for images and things that are going to be used in like publications.
So just contact us. If you have any questions about that, we also do provide programming instruction.
So we offer genealogical classes and re events.
Local history, Lecture series are really great program that's been happening since 2018, is there a quad city archives fair?
And so that is an events where all the local area resources, libraries, archives, museums, historical societies can get.
Yeah, one location and have people come, visit them and learn about their institutions.
So we hold that annually. I believe our one for 23 is going to be in April.
So if you're in this area, please check out then events.
We have an A program called Open in the box. That features are archive and manuscript collections are preservation workshop, where we cover topics that, like book mending books, supports things like that, taking care of old photographs, things of that nature all through
Talks and book arts, Academy, and our paleography classes.
So learning has to read those old handwriting so as just jumping into more programs and our exhibits.
So we have all those lovely programs that I kind of mentioned before.
But we also have exhibits on display at each of our library branches, and and then also in special collections as well as the main floor of building as well.
And so we also host traveling displays and exhibit.
So we always have something new on display for you. And then another great resource that you can start searching our collections with before you come, visit us in person.
Is our library's website. So all the links that all the sites that I've talked about they should be accessible through our library's website.
As you can see, our archive and manuscript collections, we have our umbda accessible under resources, our local database search, asking special questions, questions, and our blog.
A tons of great resources on there. And our. We also have another set of really great research guides.
So these are on particular topics, either based on a person or topic, or a subject area that we have a good collection of resources available on.
So you can go here and learn about African, American, history in the Quad cities.
Antwerpaire, Baby Settlow, genealogical research, and using our collections newcom, loom, big spider back, and much more
And then we also have technology in our department that you can use.
So we have our kick scanner. So if you have a book that you want, scanned or scanning something from our collection, you can use that and save it in a variety of formats.
Pdf. Jpeg. And G. Up to 600 Dpi.
And then you can also email it or save it to USB, so lots of great Friday on how you would like to save the the files.
We also have a digital and microfilm. Reader, reboot readers in our collection.
So you can access those. We also have a digitization station upstairs as well as in our staff area, where, if you have something that you'd like scanned, you can communicate with us and see what we can do then for donations.
So this is one of our primary ways that we build our collection is through donations.
So this is just a general overview of how that process typically goes.
We get many donations in all different formats. So we have digital donations of born digital files, like we're documents and photographs and things like that.
But we also have lots of physical formatted materials coming to us.
So genealogical forms and records, letters, diaries, photographs, essentially everything that I mentioned.
But you can start that by contacting some questions, and then we'll go from there.
And then we make an accessible with research and the Re research use and digitization.
But one of our greatest resources is our staff. So we really invite you to come and talk to us.
And this is our space. So come and visit us as well, and we'll show you around our space.
But thank you so much for spending this hour with me, and if you have any questions I'll I'll end this, and then
We can go from there
Super thanks so much, Katherine. I had no idea you had that much stuff over there.
Yeah, we do have quite a bit
I felt I felt like I'd walk through the tour of every collection that you had, so that was great
Well, well, good. I'm glad. I hopefully. I answered. A lot of folks.
Yeah. People's questions. Oh, good.
Yeah, we had several questions in the chat, and, Ricky, I'm just gonna ask you to go ahead and open up your mic and ask.
She had 2 or 3 questions. I'll just let her ask directly
Perfect.
Okay, thank you. This has been very informative. I'm like, Wow, this likes sherry.
But my first question is, Oh, do you have information on the Annie with Myer home?
We do have some history, and then a census listing of the I can't remember what particular year, but we do not have the actual records of the children who lived at any with.
So we'll put the Iowa State Health Department has access to those, and so we'll give you the contact information for that
Okay, I actually don't need it. I was just wondering
Oh, yeah, no, that's a that's a great question.
Okay? And then on the Hosteler photo collection and the Free studio collection.
Did you come across to be black people in those
I wanna. Say, we have
I. Time period is like, so that collection is actually split between the Putnam in us.
Okay.
The Putnam Museum and us cause it's like a 20,000 last negative election.
I wanna say there were a few. But contact me, and we'll help you out, Ricky
Okay. Thank you.
Okay. And really, to that. Laura had asked if the hostel or photo collection material was labeled
Yes, so the really great thing it it's labeled.
But it was based on who paid for the photographs.
So it's not always indicative of who actually is in the photographs.
So like, we have students who do graduation photos.
So it's their parents, or the husband, and it's the wife and the children.
So it's kind of we try and do research.
And that's why it takes us so long to get them up onto Upper Mississippi digital Image Archive.
But we do have lots of great resources. So if you do have some something, we can find it for you
Okay. Super super. Well, that was the end of the questions. In chat.
I'll just invite anybody that has a question to go ahead and open up your mic and ask Katherine directly to, and this always takes a few minutes for people to find their mute button
I know. Yeah.
Yeah.
Going back to that collection? Are there many pictures from people that would be settled further north, like up around Gottenburg, in that area?
From what I know, I don't believe so, but contact us, and we can see what that might.
That's a good question for for us to research
Okay.
Any other questions. I'm not seeing anybody M. Open in their mics up again, Katherine.
This was just, you know, like brain dump that's fabulous.
Makes me want to come over and visit, even though I don't have family over there.
Oh, yeah, please do.
So we're kind of right at the top of the hour here if I don't get anybody else asking any questions, I just want to thank you again for.
And embedding us with all of the information about what you've got over there.
It's kind of been a fun series to get started knowing that you know, there's just a lot of stuff that's not been digitized isn't available online and we've got to put on those those good research skills to dig into the libraries and figure out.
Well, do they have something I need? Do I have something I want?
Oh!
Where were my people at? So there was a question about a handout, and I and there wasn't one that you'd put together. Was there
No, but I can put one together for you guys if that works
Well, I think I think, even just for me. If you would just print your slides, you know, turn it into a Pdf.
Yeah, yeah.
And then we can get that out to everybody that's registered.
I can certainly do that
Okay, perfect. That'll be our reminder to say, Oh, yeah, I need to go.
I need to go check their website out
Yes, yeah, no. It's it's a really great.
We've really tried to, even if we have it.
One place, we try and point to it from our website and have links someplace.
So, yeah. And if you have any questions about anything, contact me or my department, we're more than happy to answer anything
Do you have an email available on the website so we can get directly to your department
Yep. So on. If you go to the genealogy in history section of the website, there's going to be ask a research question or a special questions question. And that comes directly to us
Oh, super, that's great to know. All right. Well, I want to thank everybody for joining us today.
It's been a great sunny day here in Iowa, unusually warm.
Yeah.
We'll take them when we can get them right, and we've got some people from out of state.
So you know Iowa is a host for a lot of families.
As they traveled, and we always appreciate getting that insight into the other parts of the stick for those of us that are in the Des Moines area.
Thanks.
All right. Well, thank you so much. Everybody have a great rest of your day.
Happy Hunting.
Alrighty!