Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York

This Monday, Dec. 14, join the South Central Regional Library Council and Southern Tier Library System for Indigenous Peoples: From Land Acknowledgement to Outreach. This hour of conversation will focus on how libraries may work with indigenous peoples to support their cultural identities and sovereignty. Objectives are to: 1. Understand the purpose of a land acknowledgment and what it does and does not do. ... 2. Brainstorm ideas of strategies to work with tribal communities. 3. Consider how to evaluate library services in terms of how they might be received by indigenous communities. 4. Discuss building collections that reflect the indigenous experience. Learn more and register (free): https://scrlc.org/events/view/6324

Photograph of Red Cross nurse Edna Marsh, in uniform, standing outside in the snow at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina. On Christmas Day 1918, Marsh, a Belfast, NY native, was transferred from SC to NY to help aid the influenza response. Back in her home state, she fought on the front lines of the pandemic until her outpost closed in July 1919. Image: At Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S.C. New York State Archives, 1917 1918. #ThankYouNurses #1918Flu #EdnaMarsh #FrontLineWorkers #BadAssNurses #NewYorkStateArchives #WWINurses #PandemicChristmas #ArchivesChristmas #AmericanRedCross #NewYorkStateArchives #DHPSNY

Documenting marginalized communities in NYS is a complicated undertaking that requires careful planning, an openness to meaningful collaboration, and an understanding that successful documentation is more than collection development and acquisition. In our latest #AntiracismResources blog post, we take a look at an outstanding example of this balance: The Buffalo East Side History Project, a collaboration between the University at Buffalo Center for Urban Studies and the Monroe Fordham Regional History Center at Buffalo State College's E. H. Butler Library.

Congratulations to the 2020 NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Awardees! Greater Hudson Heritage Network in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is awarding $115,739.19 in conservation treatment grants to 22 organizations, including DHPSNY alums Bard College and Cortland County Historical Society. Check out the GHHN press release below for the full list of recipients. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/GHHN-Announces-2020-NYS

On a local vacation in New York during this particularly beautiful fall, Program Manager Anastasia Matijkiw’s parents serendipitously snapped this image of the Geneva History Museum at Prouty-Chew House. The History Museum is part of the Geneva Historical Society (GHS), one of our 2020 sites awarded a DHPSNY Preservation Survey. Through the History Museum and the other historic properties that GHS manages, the Rose Hill Mansion and Johnston House, GHS tells the stories of G...eneva, New York. Spanning the 300+ year history of this small Finger Lakes city, GHS’ collections include 1,300 cubic feet of paper materials and over 20,000 photographs. Explore their digital collections at https://genevahistoricalsociety.com #GenevaNY #FingerLakes #HistoricHouseMuseum #HouseMuseum #MuseumsOfInstagram #GenevaHistory

Funding Alert: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions This program is designed to help small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant to improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art o...bjects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials. Deadline: Thursday, January 14, 2021 Learn more and apply: https://www.neh.gov//preservation-assistance-grants-smalle