The Personal Archiving Lab at the Central Library is a collection of equipment that can be used to digitize at-risk analog materials.
The Mini Archiving Lab is not currently available..
To use the equipment, you'll need to take a short tutorial with library staff. A tutorial takes 20-30 minutes and you can stop into one of the sessions listed below at participating locations.
Schedule a Tutorial:
Central Library (these are drop-in, no appointment necessary)
Monday, April 22, 2-4PM(CANCELED)- Monday, April 29, 2-4PM
- Monday, May 6, 2-4PM
- Monday, May 13, 2-4PM
- Monday, May 20, 2-4PM
Monday, May 27- (LIBRARY CLOSED)- Monday, June 3, 2-4PM
- Monday, June 10, 2-4PM
- Monday, June 17, 2-4PM
- Monday, June 24, 2-4PM
The Personal Archiving Lab at Central Library supports conversion of VHS tapes, VHS-C tapes, DVDs (not BluRay), Audio cassettes, MiniDV tapes, Hi-8 tapes, photographs/negatives/slides, and paper-based documents.
Mini Archiving Lab
- TBD - not available at this time
The Mini Personal Archiving Lab equipment supports VHS tapes, Audio cassettes, Photographs/negatives/slides, and paper-based documents.
Patrons who use either Personal Archiving Lab must bring some form of external storage — a portable hard drive, or a thumb drive (recommended) — on which digital files can be stored.