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The Library Can Help Preserve Your Personal Stories
Special to The Truth
Do you have analog photos, letters and documents that you
wish were digital? We’re here to help! Now that libraries
and archives are able to put materials online and make them
easily available to the world, we are working to create a
more complete online archive that documents the history of
northwest Ohio.
While we have been digitizing our own materials, we need
your help to create a more complete historical picture.
Bring your photos, letters, and documents, and Preserve Your
Personal Story here at TLCPL!
Preserve Your Personal Story: Veterans
will take place at Main Library on Saturday, November 5,
2016 from 12-4 p.m. Digitized materials will be made
accessible via the Digital Collections of Northwest Ohio,
our site that hosts primary resource content from and
related to Northwest Ohio. To check out some materials
recently lent to us by veteran John Gallagher, visit Ohio
Memory (www.ohiomemory.org).
If you have materials that are relevant to this theme, and
wish to make them available, wonderful! If you do not wish
to have your materials added to the Digital Collections of
Northwest Ohio, that’s perfectly fine too. We will be
providing copies of all digitized materials on flash drives
for all attendees.
We ask that customers limit their digitization requests to
10 pages or photos. We are primarily interested in 2D
materials, such as letters, pictures, postcards, documents,
etc. Materials up to 8.5 x 11 inches are welcome. If you
have materials larger than 8.5 x 11 inches that you are
interested in digitizing or would like to digitize materials
but cannot attend the event, please contact us (contact
information below).
Don’t have materials you want to digitize? This event may
still be for you. We will be handing out brochures about how
to preserve your digital files as well. While digitizing
materials can help to preserve content, especially physical
materials that are deteriorating, digital files require
special attention in order to make sure that they are
accessible for future generations. Topics covered in the
brochure include file identification, organization, storage
and backup.
We will be doing more Preserve Your Personal Story events in
the future. If you have suggestions regarding topics or
themes that you would like to see covered, please email us.
The program is first come first serve, so be sure to arrive
early.
Contact information:
Local History & Genealogy Department (Main Library, third
floor)
www.toledolibrary.org/research
419.259.5233
digitization@toledolibrary.org
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