Multimedia

Once an image collection has been digitized it provides a ready source of material that can be used to create multi media presentations.

A good example of how this can be put into practice is the ‘Sheffield Time Machine’ which is a virtual tour of historic Sheffield. This production has been created by the Local Studies Department at Sheffield Central Library and has been mastered to CDROM for sale to the general public. The Sheffield Time Machine takes you on a tour of the city centre as it was in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth.

Picture Sheffield is a digitisation programme to allow on-line access to part of the collections held by Sheffield Local Studies Library. The project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, aims to put around 10,000 pictures on the Internet.

This site is being used as a test-bed for the project. All the images held here are in the ownership of Sheffield Libraries and should not be downloaded or used without written permission. http://www.hpac.org.uk/home11x.html

For further information on the Picture Sheffield project contact the Local Studies department of Sheffield Central Library, email local.studies@dial.pipex.com’