What’s New at Heidelberg Historical Society?

Great progress has been made with a new collections system on line. The new system uses the Tellico collections program and is based on the Ubuntu operating system. Many hours of work were needed to transfer the old records to the new system.

 

Volunteers Training Day

On Saturday February 2, 2008, volunteers participated in a training day. This helped prepare them to assist Sunday afternoon visitors to the museum, who want to search our records. Proud volunteers posed for a group photo, but it didn't work so we had to use this one.


In Our Collections

Visitors to the Museum in Heidelberg can now search our collections of photographs, maps, indexed newspaper articles, archives and information on property sales by using the new collections program.

There are now over 2500 photographs, some 300 maps and many other files available to assist researchers. Having the images on computer not only makes them easier to find, it also protects original documents from too much handling.

For example, the photo to the right shows St John's Anglican Church, Heidelberg, seen from the back entrance to our museum adjacent to the Heidelberg Police Station. Recent apartment construction now obscures this view.

 

Users can arrange the information and image files on the computer screen so that both are visible at once. Images can be sustantially enlarged so that otherwise unnoticed details can be examined.

The column on the left allows users to search for subjects alphabetically, while another system allows them to try any subects they want to search.