Truman Library
FYI TOM
When i went to medical school in Northeast Missouri, I had spent plenty of time studying at another Truman Library (Truman University)which used to be called North East Missouri State University,(NEMO) I was amazed at there historic collections. I would ride my bike over to that library since it was such a beaituful campus. I was the editor of my school newspaper and used some of the historic material at the library
for my paper.
Mark
That would be me! I am the Principal Investigator on the project, and my Design Team has 3 really talented Web and Database programmers who do the operational development. The site now has some 15,000 documents digitized, and we recieve some 6-7 million hits each month.
Basically we take primary source documents selected by the Archivists at the Truman Library and Museum, digitize them, then do minor editing and write the code to put them up within the Truman's pages (
www.trumanlibrary.org/). Most of our good stuff is under this link:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/collect.htm
but we do other pages as well. Whatever the funding agency asks for, we design!
We do this for less than $100K per year, and this covers the DB administrator, two programmers and part of my salary at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I don't get paid "extra" for the effort, as I am salaried and my costs are "fixed" (paid for by the University). So what we do is go out and get grants (I have others) to cover our costs, which makes us beloved by administrators above us
Wish I could get a penny for every 1000 hits the site receives, but since the Truman is a government entity this would be frowned upon (and illegal, I suspect!).
Thanks for looking at the site. Now you guys know a little more about what I do during the week (more than my wife or kids!). They just think I'm on Ebay or the 348-409 site all the time (which is partly correct!). Basically I just sit at home in front of a screen all day, as all my classes are Webbed as well
Cheers!
TomK[/QUOTE]
