I guess the first thing to do would be to discuss the ins
and outs of the project that is finally complete at this time. The UGRWCD decided somewhere around 2010 that
they wanted to start going digital with all their document, which was a great
concept, however it left one problem; a room full of file cabinets that were
not so digital. This was the birth of
the project that took over a year to complete and countless people hours of
work. All 15,000+ documents had to be
organized, filtered through, scanned, uploaded, and posted to the UGRWCD’s
water documents library. The idea with
the library is that it will not only preserve some of the older documents that
the UGRWCD had stashed away, but it will also provide a good public resource
for water issues in the Valley. Since
our town is very small, sometimes it can be difficult trying to find specific information
about the area, and just through my
experience with this database, it has opened my eyes to a lot of
information I never knew was out there.
By
going through all these documents, I have certainly learned a lot more than I
thought I would just doing “mindless” scanning and uploading. Having to upload these documents allowed me
to read through them and discover just a little more about the area than meets
the eye. Through this blog I hope to
report to you just a few of the interesting things I found throughout my work
on the project. A lot of them are things
that I have heard about in classes at Western, and it just made it even more
intriguing to see it in the real world.
I would also encourage everyone to visit the website and give me a
little feedback on what you think. http://www.uppergunnisonwaterdocs.com/
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