June 28, 2006
Priscilla Davis, librarian at the Attica Public Library presented a program on preservation of historical documents at the Attica library. It was a show and tell agenda, exampling the various papers and photographs needing special attention if they are to be available to those with a future interest....>>More
She indicated a recent visit by Norlene Young, a specialist in preservation of library documents, who identified some of the possibilities open to the library in its efforts to care for aging papers.
The library already has a number of local newspapers on microfilm ranging from 1863 to the present although some gaps still exist in the dates. The library, with the help from the Attica Community Foundation has recently added reels in order to create a more complete collection of newspapers.
Mrs. Davis indicated that she was interested in receiving old photographs that might be scanned by the library, with the original pictures being returned to the owner.
She also asked that anyone with copies of the Attica Elementary School yearbooks, printed between 1970 and 1990, who might be willing to add them to the library collection of high school yearbooks currently on hand. "They are of great historical value, because many of those yearbooks contained historic references to early events of the community as well as pictures of citizens when they were children.
