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As a librarian at Plymouth State University, I am seeking the expertise of someone with an interest in industrial papermaking.

Plymouth State is home to a collection of thousands of photographs of the Brown Paper Company of Berlin, NH. A great many of these photographs were taken in the company mills in the early twentieth century and show their papermaking process and equipment. Currently the photographs do not have enough data attached to them to make them easily searchable. Together with two student employees, I have undertaken a project to add information to the photographs to facilitate folks finding and using them.

I am seeking someone with an interest in papermaking of this time period (roughly 1910s-1940s) who would be willing to share their opinion about what aspects of this collection are most interesting to them and what search terms they would expect to be able to use to search the collection. If there is anyone at the APHA who would be willing to have a brief (perhaps 20 minutes) phone or Skype conversation with myself and my students, I would be thrilled to hear from them.

Thank you so much for your consideration.

Best,
Christin Chenard
Metadata Resources Librarian
Lamson Library and Learning Commons
Plymouth State University, MSC 47
Plymouth, NH 03264
chchenard@plymouth.edu
(603) 535-3032