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The Appleton Library has received a second grant to digitize local history materials. This is a Library Services and Technology grant through the Department of Public Instruction and will make these resources available to genealogists and researchers online. Local interest titles selected for this project include the 1925 Appleton City directory, which details the renumbering of local street addresses, 1978 and 1989 Appleton Historic Building Surveys, “Our First 100 years, 1857–1957”, and “Appleton’s 75th Anniversary Celebration and George Washington Bi-Centennial, 1857-1932”. Outagamie County historical resources include “Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago, and “Land of the Fox, Saga of Outagamie County”. By digitizing them they will remain accessible to everyone.
The digitization will take place at the Wisconsin Digital Collections Center in Madison this year. The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections’ goal is to provide access to Wisconsin’s rare and/or fragile items of broad research value and other items that are of value to students, scholars and the general public. When the project is completed later this year, the digitized materials and the indexes will be found on the Appleton Library website and also become part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections site at http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/.