With the help of SHARP member Ellen Forget, SHARP News is putting together an alt text guide for book historians. We are looking for:
- scans of books from different periods, interior pages and exterior covers
- people using scanners or other tools on/around books
- people examining books
- library shelves
- in-person and virtual conference pictures of people presenting (a variety of slide types, with the people presenting and without)
- data visualizations about books (graphs, charts, etc.)
- ebook screenshots, social media posts/screenshots, and other digital materials for folks working on contemporary materials (this goes for digital humanities projects about books as well – OCR screenshots, website screenshots, anything a book historian might show or use in a presentation or class)
- anything else bookish you can find or think of
Please include, alongside the image:
- confirmation of copyright ownership of the image (or creative commons license) and permission to use the image for the SHARP News website
- names of people in the photos, if possible (not vital, but good to have)
- brief description or keywords of what the image is of
- date of the photo or which conference it’s from, if applicable (not vital, but good to have)
- any other information about the photo or objects/people in the photos that the person sending it thinks might be useful
If you have an image you’d like to contribute, please send it to Ellen at ellen.michelle@mail.utoronto.ca
ellen[dot]michelle[at]mail[dot]utoronto[dot]ca (replacing the relevant punctuation) by 1 November.
