These two earlier and prominent citizens of South Carolina's Georgetown County would probably be delighted with our initial success at using digital library technology to make a unique collection of historical photographs continually available to anyone in the world with access to an Internet-connected computer.
On the left is William Doyle Morgan (1853 - 1938) and on the right is Alfred Glover Trenholm (1874-1952). It is their photographs, ranging from the 1890's into the early twentieth century, that are featured in Georgetown County Library's first digital collection which was funded by a $40,000 2005 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Georgetown County Digital Library Website is now operational. This is just the beginning of a service that will eventually host historical collections from ten or more Georgetown County agencies. Enjoy what's posted now and continue to watch as we refine existing content and add new collections of photographs, searchable old newspapers, commercial records, maps, and other items of cultural and historical interest.
Libraries, museums, and similar institutions are increasingly using the World Wide Web to enable or improve access to special assets traditionally not easily accessible by the general public. Click the "American Memory" icon at the top of this page to visit a Library of Congress website that was designed to be the "flagship" of the National Digital Library Program. Spending some time browsing the site should result in a good first-hand understanding of and appreciation for this relatively new kind of public knowledge resource.
To give you something else to look at (or listen to) while you wait for more local collections to be digitized, we've compiled a list of web sites into a Digital Library Sampler that we think you might enjoy. Caution! You can spend many hours exploring these interesting and entertaining destinations.
