Drupal is an open source web site publishing framework, distributed under the GPL (“General Public License”) that allows easy publishing, managing and organizing of a wide range of content. Thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power a variety of web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and more.
NORWELD is working with a number of our regional libraries to develop Drupal web sites that will make it easier for libraries to maintain their content, while implementing more Library/Web 2.0 capabilities than ever before.
NORWELD, in cooperation with six of its member libraries, has created a new "web exhibit" about World War II that's been excerpted from over 100 oral history interviews conducted in the region over the past year. "My War: Northwest Ohioans Remember World War II" brings local perspective to a subject that is being brought to renewed national prominence by a Ken Burns documentary, "The War."
The web exhibit covers subjects ranging from military training and combat to communications and censorship, life in the military, and the impact of the war on the home front. The clips are searchable by library where the interviews were shot as well as by subject.
"Saving your Community's Memories" is a 12 minute introduction to the Northwest Ohio Narratives, a program designed by NORWELD to videotape local oral histories in the communities we serve. Since the program's inception in 2006, almost 100 interviews in 10 libraries on topics ranging from World War II to the impact of the railroad have been recorded.
Oral
History List - (New!) A
listserv for the Northwest Ohio Narratives project.
Black
Swamp Memories Digital Scrapbook
The BSM project is a cooperative effort of the Wood County District Public
Library, BGSU, the Wood County Historical Society and NORWELD to create
a searchable archive of historic photos of the Great Black Swamp region.
The project is funded in part by the State Library of Ohio and can be found at: blackswampmemories.org/
Additional information about the project may be obtained
by contacting Allan
Gray at NORWELD.
R.B.
hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index
A cooperative program among the Center and 36 Ohio libraries where a web-based
obituary index is maintained with over 800,000 names in the database and
citations to another 1.5 million newspaper sources. The site is currently
recieving 800,000 hits per month. NORWELD member libraries are provided
an initial subsidy by the system to join the project. The database can
be accessed here.
