[ha-Safran] Looking for a digitizer?

[Alison Joseph via Hasafran]

Hi Safranim,
I am looking for a company to digitize a large archival collection -- we are 
estimating 200 linear feet, potentially 360,000 pages. Does anyone have 
experience with digitization companies, ideally in the northeast (the 
collection is currently in Connecticut and NYC). I would love to hear if anyone 
has personal experience with a company. I am looking for someone to pick up the 
collection and digitize it. Any additional cataloging/indexing/metadata 
recording would be welcome, as it is a large collection with very little 
recorded in the way of inventory/index.

Thanks in advance,
Alison


Alison L. Joseph, PhD (she/her)

Director of Digital Scholarship and Assistant Professor of Bible

GRATZ COLLEGE


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[ha-Safran] Elie Wiesel Collection is going digital!

[Alison Joseph via Hasafran]

Elie Wiesel Archive, Crown Jewel of Gratz College’s New Digital Collections 
Platform

Gratz has been selected by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to host and 
curate the world’s first digital archive dedicated to the life’s work of Elie 
Wiesel, Nobel laureate and pivotal public figure in Holocaust education and 
remembrance. The archive will provide freely available, searchable access to 
scholars, students, humanitarians, and the public-at-large.



About choosing Gratz to digitize his father’s archive, Elisha Wiesel comments, 
“Access to this collection will contribute significantly to increased 
scholarship and impact in the arena of Holocaust and Human Rights education at 
a time when this knowledge is needed more than ever. Gratz College is ideally 
suited to do so in a way that honors and advances my father’s legacy.”



According to Gratz President Zev Eleff, the Wiesel Collection will be “the 
crown jewel of the Grayzel Digital 
Platform, an online repository of digital collections named for the historian and 
longtime Gratz College professor Solomon Grayzel. The platform aims to 
democratize Jewish learning through the production of a state-of-the-art web 
platform and a modular database full of texts, images, videos, and sounds that 
capture the complexities of the Jewish experience in the modern world. Grayzel 
will deepen intellectual inquiry for Gratz students and emerge as one of the 
most powerful open-access websites for anyone eager to engage in modern Jewish 
history and culture.”



The Grayzel Digital Archive organizes unique, historically significant 
collections in three key project areas: American Jewish history and culture; 
the Holocaust and Jewish life in prewar Europe; and Judaism’s contribution to 
social justice.

In addition to the Wiesel archive, Grayzel will launch with the following 
unique, historically significant collections:  Holocaust Oral History 
Archive, Rebecca Gratz 
Correspondence, Dr. 
 Lena Allen-Shore 
Papers, and 
 Gratz College - Eric Mandell Digital Jewish Music 
Collection.



Dr. Alison Joseph, Gratz Director of Digital Scholarship, leads the ambitious 
multi-phased Grayzel initiative. Grayzel will feature advanced search and 
filter/sort tools, high quality UI/UX, high standard cybersecurity protections, 
and a user-friendly dashboard. It will support significant visitor traffic, 
include visually powerful and interactive displays, and ensure ADA compliance 
for accessibility.

About the purpose of the Archive, Joseph remarks:

“Over the past few years, we have seen that the future of Jewish learning is 
online. Grayzel will bring previously unseen sources to the internet, making 
them accessible in a graphically attractive and digitally sophisticated way for 
learners of all levels from around the world. The robust search and filter 
tools will pull the collections together, putting them into 

[ha-Safran] Hiring: Digital Archivist

[Alison Joseph via Hasafran]

Dear Safranim,
I am hiring a digital and processing archivist. This is a full-time, in person 
position. I'm looking for a partner to process our collections and advise me on 
all things archive. More info can be found here 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.gratz.edu/employment/digital-archivist__;!!KGKeukY!0wZrJCMyWd_dkKX46LAJ5n1Nf51cf842VYCmWwOpgVVcsMKXl8oO7LKz_rJ-X5G0PnNDb3HyGYMb3ytKy08OSg$
 


All the best,
Alison



Alison L. Joseph, PhD (she/her)

Director of Digital Scholarship and Assistant Professor of Bible

GRATZ COLLEGE

ajos...@gratz.edu 

215-635-7300 x144



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