HomeMy WebLinkAboutFebruary 16DRAFT History Committee Meeting Minutes
February 16, 2010
Meeting called to order at LAH Parks & Rec. Building at 2:05 pm by Mary Ann
Malcolm, Chair.
Roll call
Committee Members present: Nobuko Cleary, Bill Downey, Les Earnest, Maryann
Malcolm
Associate Member present: Barbara Packard
Council Liaison present: Jean Mordo
Others present: Jitze Couperus
Minutes of the 1/19/10 Committee meeting
Reviewed and approved.
Inventory Subcommittee.
Earnest reported having reviewed another eight historical scrapbooks and folders on Jan.
26, bringing the total to 26 and the page count to 2,103, with perhaps another dozen
scrapbooks to go. In order to assess the size of the prospective scrapbook scanning
project, the Inventory Subcommittee will continue cataloging page counts in Council
Chambers on Tuesday, Feb. 23 beginning at 1:30pm.
Scanning Project
Earnest reported that the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org, located in San
Francisco, has a book scanning service that does two pages at a time and converts to text
files at a cost of 10 cents per page. He advocated putting historical Town Newsletters on
the Town web site by acquiring PDF versions of those from recent years and getting the
Internet Archive to scan hard copy versions from earlier years. He estimated that the
scanning costs using the Internet Archive would be on the order of $100. The committee
concurred with this approach and authorized him to proceed.
Jitze Couperus discussed further his experimental photographic recording of Town
history scrapbooks and the likelihood that a commercial scanning service will likely be
needed if those materials are to be digitized.
Renaming Edith Park
Mordo reported that the Council plans to take up the question of whether to rename Edith
Park at their meeting on April 15 and will consider the ideas put forth earlier by History
Committee members. If anyone would like to participate they should attend and possibly
should put a proposal in writing.
Meeting Adjourned at 2:30 PM
Submitted by Les Earnest, Secretary