Local history to the Internet

Library Administrator's Digest, Apr 2001

The Grandview Heights Public Library, Grandview, Ohio, has selected the document imaging and management system from One Image Software Inc. for an ambitious project that will bring online access to several important and rare collections at central Ohio public libraries.

Grandview Heights Public Library (GHPL) will use One Image software initially to scan, index, cross-reference and bring online over 10,000 historic photographs taken by the Citizen Journal newspaper from between 1930 and 1985, when the publication closed its doors. The digitized images will be made available through the library's online catalog and via the Internet.

Soon to follow, according to Carol Pelz, director of GHPL, will be the capture of nearly 80 years of Grandview High School annual yearbooks, dating back to the 1920s, and the addition of materials held by members of the Central Ohio Library Consortium. The State Library of Ohio, with the backing of a Library Services and Technology Act grant, is funding the project.

"We are very excited. We've been waiting for six years to find just the right mix of software so that everything would be done properly," said Ms. Pelz. "When we saw what One Image software could do, we knew immediately that's the quality we wanted."

News Release, One Image, February 2001