Includes bibliographical references and index.

Band-aids and superglue for the cash-strapped local history librarian / Chad Leinaweaver -- Basic in-house book and paper repair / Karen E.K Brown -- Emergency preparedness / Dyani Feige -- You can't keep it all / Rochelle LeMaster -- Balancing selection and digitization : selecting 19th and early-20th century newspaper titles for online access / Athena Jackson -- Indexing your local newspapers on microfilm / Kelly Zackmann -- Newspaper preservation in developing countries : issues and strategies for intervention / Goodluck Israel Ifijeh -- How to get scrapbooks into the hands of users / Anastasia Weigle -- Keeping scrapbooks secure and available / Erin Foley -- Physical properties of scrapbooks / Jennifer Hain Teper -- Creating local history development guidelines / William Helling -- Keeping a past : preservation issues in local history / Nancy Richey -- Minimizing privacy and copyright concerns with online local history collections / David Gwynn -- Lavaca County Records Retention Project / Brenda Lincke Fisseler -- Managing archives in local history collections / Sarah Welland -- Partnering with local genealogical societies / Lisa Fraser -- Patron driven family history preservation / Howard C. Bybee -- Collecting and preserving photographic materials / Amanda Drost -- Organizing and indexing photo collections / Rose Fortier -- Photograph selection, access, and preservation for the public librarian / Rebekah Tabah -- Digital preservation of the Emilie Davis diaries / Alexia Hudson -- Preserving and 'publishing' local biographies / Elizabeth B. Cooksey -- Promoting local history through the catablog / Cyndi Harbeson -- Reinventing the obituary file for the digital age / Kerry FitzGerald -- Preserving born-digital oral histories / Juliana Nykolaiszyn -- Preserving Indiana women's voices : a university oral history project / Theresa McDevitt -- Steps in preserving oral histories / Suellyn Lathrop -- Affiliation agreements / Tomaro Taylor -- Educating the community : preserving tomorrow's treasures today / Jessica Phillips -- Historical sheet music collections : practical wisdom, racial sensitivity / Karl Madden -- Tracing history through non-traditional methods / Emily Griffin.