Athens-Clarke County Library hosting programs for Preservation Week

The Athens-Clarke County Library is participating in Preservation Week beginning Saturday with programs that will help those who want to preserve their old documents and photographs.

These programs have been done in the past such as copying physical media to digital, “but we haven’t talked so much about the digital preservation side of it,” said Ashley Shull, head of archives and special collections.

The week begins Saturday when the library is hosting an open house that is co-sponsored by the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society. People will tour the Heritage Room and learn what one can find in this large collection of materials.

This is followed on Tuesday with a class at 5:30 p.m. in which librarians explain how to organize and save digital materials by creating a personal digital archive.

Then on May 14, another class at 5:30 p.m. is geared at how to curate, organize and store family heirlooms from photos to textiles and furniture.

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Shull said these classes will be available for those at the library and people can attend online.

Then through May, people can schedule classes  to come to the library and receive instructions on how to use the library’s scanning machines, which are free to use.

“We have the equipment here and we can walk you through how to do it,” she said.

The library has scanning machines that can scan photo slides, photo negatives and documents of various sizes.

For more information, visit https://athenslibrary.libcal.com or call (706) 613-3650, ext. 350.

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Learn to digitize documents, photos at ACC Library Preservation Week