Brooklyn Public Library takes part in effort to preserve local history
Brooklyn Public Library is partnering with Queens Library and the Metropolitan New York Library Council in an effort to preserve neighborhood history throughout the city.
The three library systems will sponsor Culture in Transit, which is designed to provide digitization equipment and expertise to smaller libraries and community organizations in an effort to help neighborhoods define and catalog their histories.
In addition to digitizing institutional archives, Culture in Transit will help New Yorkers to preserve their own historical memorabilia, which they may then share in local collections and submit to the Digital Public Library of America for online accessibility.