How You Can Help Us - Waterford County Museum

Waterford County Museum - Museum Information

How You Can Help Us - 4. Become An International Volunteer

Even if you don't live in Ireland you can volunteer to help the museum. Many out of print / out of copyright documents are in the Museum Archive. We would like to make these available on our web site but due to the constraints of staffing and time we aren't able to scan/ocr all of them. Following a suggestion from John Geary, one of our mailing list members from America, we have had the idea of getting volunteers to help us scan text from these documents. Here is how the idea works.

We would post photocopied documents to a volunteer.
They would scan them.
They would e-mail us the scanned document.

We would probably have to send a minimum of about 30 pages a time to make it worth the museums while. If you have the ability to scan documents and want to help the museum please send your e-mail address to william@deisedesign.com . We wouldn't be in a great hurry to get documents scanned. If they were sent back within a month we would be more than happy.

A word of caution: Scanning documents takes longer than you think (especially the proofreading), it is often times boring and you probably won't get the thanks you feel you deserve. However you would be making a very worthwhile contribution to preserving Waterford History.

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