From the corner cubicle, Isaac Trimble admits to getting distracted by a good story.
“I guess what, to the average Minnesota citizen, may seem like just gossip or small time news, to this community, it is everything,” he said.
Trimble, a summer intern, works with old newspapers in the Minnesota Historical Society’s (MNHS) collection. He reads up on a variety of topics from treaty rights to the 1989 Super Bowl while on a project to digitally archive papers for the MNHS website.
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The department hired Trimble for the summer to increase access, specifically, to historic Native newspapers. The digitizing initiative overall started much earlier in 2010 with papers like the Progress, Tomahawk and Red Lake News, according to MNHS.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
