NEW GLASGOW - Visitors to the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library are encouraged to lend their slides depicting historical images of Pictou County.
That's because Jim Fitt, president of Web Builders of New Glasgow, has donated a top-of-the-line Minolta digital slide scanner (valued at approximately $1,900) to the library. This will allow library staff to scan slides, adding a visual component to the library's online digital collection.
"It's our belief that libraries have a new role in the way technology is presented," Fitt said.
Everything is going digital, he added, and PARL is no exception.
Steven MacLean, the library's community outreach assistant, says they already have an extensive digital library for local history and this new slide scanner will help complement that collection.
He stresses that slides should be historically relevant to Pictou County.
"We don't want personal, private collections of family photos," he said.
Rather, if a person has slides of the Drummond mine, for instance, MacLean wants to hear from them.
"We're looking for any images pertaining to local history."
This donation is especially important as staff are continuously expanding and boosting the website, located at www.parl.ns.ca, he says.
A high tech tool for saving the past
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- Published on January 11th, 2008
- Published on December 30th, 2009
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Cait MacIntyre
NEW GLASGOW - Visitors to the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library are encouraged to lend their slides depicting historical images of Pictou County.
That's because Jim Fitt, president of Web Builders of New Glasgow, has donated a top-of-the-line Minolta digital slide scanner (valued at approximately $1,900) to the library. This will allow library staff to scan slides, adding a visual component to the library's online digital collection.
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