RHSV Information Technology and Historical Societies Survey 2010 (part 2)

Use of computers at societies

• Cataloguing – 126
• Administration – 109
• Indexing projects – 92
• Newsletters and other publications – 90
• Internet access – 59

 35% of responding societies have Internet access at the society

 

24 metropolitan and state-wide groups (14% of total respondents or 50% of metropolitan and state-wide responding groups)
35 regional groups (21% of total respondents or 30% of regional respondents)

 

Use of computers - members' computers

• Internet access – 128
• Administration – 125
• Newsletters and other publications – 115
• Indexing projects – 53
• Cataloguing – 47

 Five groups listed scanning images at home as another activity

 

Typed of items scanned

• Photographs – 122
• Slides / negatives – 57
• Documents – using OCR – 81

 Not all groups scanning documents use OCR