Living HIstory Cemetery Tour
Living HIstory Cemetery Tour
October 14, 2023
Living History Tour at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
As one of the lead organizers on the project, Paw Paw saw its first highly successful living history tour.
Responsibilities:
Select characters who were influential in the community and most buried in the cemetery. We had 9.
Research and write the biographies
Create scripts
Recruit performers and put together costumes
Clean tombstones
Seek out volunteers
Develop logistics
Omeka collection.
Browse through the images to see highlights from my trip.
Using Omeka.net to create this site, I described each image or artifact using Dublin Core. Omeka is so intuitive and can be used to create beautiful, accessible collections or special exhibits.
Interested in traveling along the Trans-Siberian? Check out Monkey Shrine tour company to learn how.
Practicum with the Highland Park Historical Society collaborative project with the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Ravinia Festival Association
Click the image to connect to the Illinois Digital Archives where the digital materials that I worked on live. I analyzed boxes of correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, and maps. Created a spreadsheet of metadata using Dublin Core in accordance with Illinois guidelines.
Libguide for MLIS course.
Here is a Libguide I created for a course in the LIS program at Dominican University.
Book Trailer for Tar Beach by Faith Finggold.
This is one of my all time favorite children’s books. It was a lot of fun using animoto to create the book trailer.
NOTE: When you click on the image the video will open in YouTube.
This site provides examples of how I catalog different media types using RDA, MARC, XML.
Storytime
This is a storytime I did around Valentine’s Day at the Omaha Public Library Florence Branch. It’s all about LOVE!
Click on the image to the right to download.