Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop

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Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop

• Danielle Cunniff Plumer
• Texas State Library and Archives Commission

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Agenda

• Background
• Databases
• Searching
• Next Steps
• Contacts
• Credits

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Google Sam Houston
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Sam Houston
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THDI Vision

• To offer unified online access to cultural
  heritage resources held by Texas institutions

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Participants

• Archives
• Libraries
• Academic
• Public
• Special
• Museums
• State and Local Government Agencies

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Partnerships

• Collaboration
• Funding
• Digitization
• Hosting
• Sample Partnerships
• Portal to Texas History
• Texas Tides
• Museum of Houston

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Audiences

• Teachers and school-aged children
• TEKS social studies requirement
• Researchers
• College students
• Historians
• Genealogists
• General public

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Family Search
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Texas Heritage Online

• Genealogical Content
• TX General Land Office
• Land Grant Database
• TX State Library and Archives
• Confederate Pension Records
• Republic Claims
• More to come!

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Search Results
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Search Results
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Participation

• THDI Work Groups
• Funding
• Resources
• Standards
• Training
• Users
• THDI Annual Meeting
• February 23, 2007University of Houston
• Interest/Affinity Groups
• Texas Library Association
• Texas Association of Museums

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Contacts

• Texas Heritage Onlinehttp//www.thdi.org
• Danielle Cunniff Plumer, CoordinatorTexas
  Heritage Digitization InitiativeTexas State
  Library and Archives CommissionPO Box 12927,
  Austin, TX 78711512-463-5852
  dplumer_at_tsl.state.tx.us
• Houston McGaugh, ChairTHDI Steering
  CommitteeStar of the Republic MuseumP. O. Box
  317, Washington, TX 77880936-878-2461
  hmcgaugh_at_blinn.edu