Digitization Grant - Appleton Public Library
Digitization Grant - Appleton Public Library
Digitization Grant - Appleton Public Library
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Fine Print Spring 2005<br />
<strong>Digitization</strong> <strong>Grant</strong><br />
<strong>Appleton</strong> Speaks Schedule<br />
The <strong>Library</strong><br />
MP3 Audio Books<br />
Behind the Scenes in<br />
Technical Services<br />
Walking Books<br />
With Apologies to Abbott & Costello<br />
FOAL News<br />
Ring a Bell<br />
Spring 2005 Adult Programs<br />
Thursdays are Cool<br />
Frank P. Young Scholarship<br />
Fine Print -Spring 2005 Volume XVI Number 1<br />
<strong>Digitization</strong> <strong>Grant</strong><br />
The <strong>Appleton</strong> <strong>Library</strong>’s commitment to local history and its preservation was reaffirmed in late 2004 when the<br />
<strong>Library</strong> received a <strong>Library</strong> Services and Technology grant through the Department of <strong>Public</strong> Instruction to<br />
digitize historical plat books of the area and make them available to genealogists and researchers online. The<br />
atlases and plat books selected for this project are the 1889 and 1917 Outagamie County Atlas and Plat Books, a<br />
1942 Plat map of Outagamie County and an undated Outagamie County Plat Book. Over many years of use,<br />
these titles have become too fragile to permit handling by library users. By digitizing them they shall again<br />
become accessible to everyone. In addition, Reference staff will produce an index to the names in each of these<br />
plat books. The name index will facilitate finding the location of land owned by a particular individual.<br />
The digitization will take place at the Wisconsin Digital Collections Center in Madison this year. The<br />
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections’ goal is to provide access to Wisconsin’s rare and/or fragile items<br />
of broad research value and other items that are of value to students, scholars and the general public. When the<br />
project is completed later this year, the digitized plat books and the index will be found on the <strong>Appleton</strong> <strong>Library</strong><br />
website and also become part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections site.<br />
Links to local history sites:<br />
<strong>Appleton</strong> <strong>Library</strong> Local History page<br />
http://www.apl.org/history/<br />
Fox Valley Memory
http://www.foxvalleymemory.org/<br />
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections<br />
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections.html