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Community Scanning Day: Digitize your Family History!

Scan important family photos and documents.

Join us Tuesday, January 21 at YDL-Whittaker from 2-5pm, OR Saturday, January 25 from 2-5pm at YDL-Michigan to scan your important documents. Use a professional grade document scanner—on loan from the Library of Michigan—to make high-quality scans of documents 8.5 x 11" (the size of a standard sheet of paper) or smaller, including photographs, correspondence, and vital records.  

Here's what to bring for scanning:

• Family photos 
• Correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings
• Other unique documents size 8.5 x 11" or smaller, especially those with significance to your family or local history

What NOT to bring for this event (these kinds of documents can be scanned any time via our standard free scanning services!):

• Business or legal documents that don't pertain to family or local history
• More content than can reasonably scanned, one document at a time, in fifteen minutes (more than 15 to 20 items)

Also, please leave home any documents that may be too fragile to survive being handled for scanning, or documents that may be dirty or contaminated.

Scans may be saved to a USB flash drive or sent to an email address as .pdf files. Attendees can bring their own USB Drives or purchase at the library for about $5-$10.

Please be aware: This event is intended to help the community digitize documents to preserve family and local history. We can not answer questions about the validity or use of scanned documents for legal or commercial purposes.

For questions, please contact Brett Hamilton (bhamilton@ypsilibrary.org, Whittaker Branch) or Mani Brito (mbrito@ypsilibrary.org, Michigan Ave Branch).

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