- Dates
- 2008-02 – 2008-08
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagetechnologyeducationfundraising
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island District Library announced a donation from longtime summer resident Peggy Banghart dedicated to converting the library to an automated system. The planned changes included new software, scanned library cards, shared cataloging, improved workflow, and a computer-accessible catalogue.
Evidence limits
This is a donation and implementation announcement, not a completed conversion, software record, catalogue export, or donor agreement.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2008, "Our Library Improves".Reports Peggy Banghart's donation for library automation, planned shared cataloging, software training, scanned library cards, and conversion of the paper catalogue. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the library report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island District Library receives a donation for automation, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-library-automation-donation-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2008, "Our Library Improves". (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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