North Carolina ECHO - Hometown History Workshops

Purpose
Small museums, historical organizations, and libraries with local history collections face many challenges in their mission of sharing local history with their communities. One common challenge is the limited budgets many groups have. This practical workshop is designed to help local historical societies and libraries learn how to create attractive exhibits on a budget. During the hands-on portion of the workshop, participants will have a chance to practice important exhibit-building skills, such as making labels, creating a book mount, and more. Because the web plays an important role today in explaining an organization’s mission and in attracting visitors, this workshop also focuses on the basics of a good web page design as well as ways to make your web page comply with the American with Disabilities Act. Note: Both presenters welcome your questions or suggestions for topics you’d like to have covered, if possible. Please email your ideas to Laura Ketcham at Laura.Ketcham@ncmail.net, and she will convey them to the presenters.

Who Should Attend
Professional librarians, support staff, library volunteers, members of historical societies and workers in other local cultural repositories will benefit from this workshop.

Sponsored by the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies and North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online.

Photo of a court document from Johnston County
Court Document
Courtesy of Johnston County Heritage Center, Smithfield, NC

Dates and locations:

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex, Fayetteville, NC
Directions in MS Word (28.5 KB) and Adobe PDF (11.4 KB) formats, or view a map in MapQuest.

Friday, May 18, 2007
Lincoln Cultural Center (hosted by the Lincoln County Historical Association), Lincolnton, NC
Directions in MS Word (26.0 KB) and Adobe PDF (10.4 KB) formats, or view a map in MapQuest.

Friday, June 1, 2007
Brown Public Library, Washington, NC
Directions in MS Word (28.0 KB) and Adobe PDF (11.8 KB) formats, or view a map in MapQuest.

Registration:

The schedule and registration form is available in MS Word (31.5 KB) and Adobe PDF (60.7 KB) formats.

Application deadline is two weeks prior to each workshop.

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North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, http://www.ncecho.org, is the World Wide Web doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites.

The NC ECHO project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources (a state agency). Lisbeth C. Evans, Secretary, www.ncculture.com.

This innovative and collaborative project seeks to build a statewide framework for digitization in order to facilitate deep, wide, and comprehensive access to the holdings of North Carolina's cultural institutions. NC ECHO is sponsored by the State Library of North Carolina in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Questions and comments may be directed to the NC ECHO staff.