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I’m the librarian for the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) and other digital collections and projects hosted by the UF Libraries using SobekCM, including the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and many others. This blog chronicles the work of building these digital collections (more than 300 collections and over 7 million pages in all, and counting) as well as associated digital humanities and other digital scholarship projects.
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I am very interested in your October 7 discussion that you would like to see a Monopoly-like game of early Florida railroads.
That’s intriguing as I developed just such a thing halfway to completion to present at my interview for a position as teacher and living history interpreter at Morningside Nature Center. It’s based on the Florida Rail Road, the first major railway in Florida completed in 1861 from Fernandina Beach through Gainesville to Cedar Key.
I can send you a JPEG of the gameboard if you like or simply bring it by.
The gameboard and my description of the basic Monopoly-like concept of the game rules got me the job. Well, that meant there was no need to complete the game, though I’d like to someday.
Interested?
Yours, Merald Clark
Merald Clark
10 Oct 07 at 10:16 pm
I’d love to see the JPEG of the game board. I work in UF’s Digital Library Center, so I might be able to help complete the board (or at least find materials to help complete it). If you have any other projects in the works with your job, please let me know. I’m a digital projects librarian and so I try to make the materials in UF’s Digital Collections better connect to UF and local area researchers and teachers. My background is in game studies and comics studies, so I’m always interested in the game angle, but I’d like to do anything I can to help (and we have some great resources that could be really useful in your work!).
If you can make it to campus on November 7 at 3:30pm, the Libraries’ Special Collections is having an Alice in Wonderland Exhibit tea party next to the exhibit area which is on the second floor of Library East. The exhibit opens on Monday and runs through December 15, but the tea party will be the best part! The exhibit website will soon be up here: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?s=alice&m=hitspecexhibit
If you’re ever on campus another time, the Digital Library Center is on the second floor of Library East and it’d be great to have you drop by.
Laurie N. Taylor
11 Oct 07 at 1:54 am
Your web site is great! I loved the Boy Scout exhibit.
Here is an entry from the blog of the Archives of the Sandusky Library if you would care to take a look:
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=moss+library
Sandusky Library
8 Mar 08 at 1:18 am