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 will be hosted at Meadowridge Library in August and September 2023. 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, August 7, 2-4PM
- Monday, August 14, 2-4PM
- Monday, August 21, 2-4PM
- Monday, August 28, 2-4PM
- Monday, September 11, 2-4PM
- Monday, September 18, 2-4PM
- Monday, September 25, 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.
Meadowridge Library (drop-in, no appointment necessary)
- Tuesday, August 8, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, August 15, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, August 22, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, August 29, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, September 5, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, September 12, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, September 19, 1-3PM
- Tuesday, September 26, 1-3PM
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.