Kathelene McCarty Smith

Uncovering Social History: An Interdepartmental Approach to Scrapbook Digitization

In 2011, staff at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboroembarked on a collaborative, cross-departmental project to digitize a large collection ofscrapbooks—a notoriously difficult material type. This article documents challenges, workflows,and lessons learned in the areas of processing, preservation, digitization, and metadata creationfor scrapbooks.