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Martin County Library launches digitization class, patron survey and digital-history project
Summary
Martin County Library is offering an introductory digitization class, is collecting patron feedback via a satisfaction survey and is expanding a Martin digital history program that lets residents digitize and contribute photos and yearbooks.
Martin County Library has posted a short class on digitization, a patron satisfaction survey and a digital-history initiative that allows residents to have old photos and yearbooks scanned and included in an online Martin digital history collection.
The library’s digitization class covers basic steps to convert analog media—such as photographs, VHS tapes and other legacy formats—into digital files. The podcast hosts noted the library promotes the offering on its website and social channels. The patron satisfaction survey is available on the library’s and the county’s web pages; the hosts said the survey is intended to capture awareness and use of library services and to gather ideas for improvements.
The Martin digital history effort draws from state archives and accepts resident-donated or -loaned materials for scanning so they can be preserved and shared online; the podcast noted the county is collecting historic photos for centennial-year displays and encouraged residents to contribute images to help document how Martin County looked 100 years ago. Specific class dates, survey deadlines and submission instructions were referenced in the podcast show notes but were not read in full on the recording.
