Washington County Digital Library

About This Grant

Washington County has many cultural organizations which are collecting or housing materials about the county's history. Use of these unique and valuable materials is limited due to the lack of easy accessibility to the dispersed and often fragile physical collections. Washington County Museum and Pacific University Library, in collaboration with libraries and historical societies throughout the county, propose to build a unified digital collection of historical images related to this region, to be called the Washington County Digital Library (WCDL). The first year objectives are to establish the administrative structure for a sustainable project, build the technical, digital, and metadata infrastructure for WCDL, access collections and develop criteria for digitization and digitize a core collection of 6000 images and build partner capacity through training on standard practices. This project will greatly increase public access to the visual history of Washington County.