Library Third Thursdays: Community Digitization Day
To help celebrate 250 years of American history, Hagley invites you to come to the library and preserve your own history! Bring photos, documents, letters, and other memories. Our staff will use our professional digitization equipment to create digital copies for your personal safekeeping.
We’d love to preserve additional copies in a special community collection in the Hagley Digital Archives, if you wish to do so. Forms will be provided during the event to help us gather information about your items for the collection.
Additional staff will be on hand to provide preservation advice and opportunities to see our library collection spaces.
Registration is free. Sign up for a convenient time slot below, and we'll see you there!
Important details
We can accommodate up to 20 minutes of scanning time per registrant.
How much can we scan?
These are estimates of what we might accommodate:
Documents: ~30 pages
Bound volumes (books, pamphlets, etc.): ~40 pages
Photographs: ~20
Negatives or slides: ~10
Other 2D items (pins, commemorative coins, etc.): ~10
How will you get your scans?
Your scans will be sent to you via the email you used to register in the days following the event.
Please note that museum admission is not included.
Enter using Hagley's Buck Road entrance at 298 Buck Road East, Wilmington, DE 19807. Follow signs to the Library.
