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Director reports Chronicle digitization, climbing volunteer hours and summer reading plans
Summary
Library staff described a newspapers.com partnership to digitize the local Chronicle archive and opened free in-library access; they also reported rising volunteer hours (11,500 in six months), program attendance statistics, and outlined a seven-week summer reading campaign called 'Unearth a Story' with a May 30 kickoff and a 600,000-minute community reading goal.
The library director and staff gave several operational reports: a Chronicle digitization project, usage and volunteer statistics, and a detailed summer programming plan.
On archives, staff described a partnership with newspapers.com to digitize the Chronicle archive. The presenter said newspapers.com "offered to take all of our film reels and then digitize them" and return the reels to the library;…
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