Two New Additions To Genealogy Center At The Allen County Library
By CURT WITCHER
Genealogy Center, Allen County Library
ALLEN COUNTY — Two new additions funded by the Allen County Public Library Foundation will be opened to the public at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 3, at the Genealogy Center, Allen County Public Library.
The Discovery Center has a wide variety of uses including monthly genealogy programs, technology sessions, and impromptu learning or discussion sessions that will help our customers in their search for family history knowledge. The room is equipped with an excellent sound system, two ceiling mounted computers, and a technology set-up that allows for use of laptops, netbooks, iPads, DVDs, Blu-ray, and document camera in a wide variety of configurations. The room can hold 240 theater style, about 100 classroom style.
Everyone has a story, and we’d like to hear yours. With the new Life Stories Center Your Story, the library and its Genealogy Center will be engaging in a program of recording, preserving, and presenting this community’s oral history. The room located directly behind the Genealogy Center information desk currently has three recording units, which after a brief training session, can be used either at the library or after being checked out can be taken outside the library to record interviews.
The library intends to archive and then share these interviews through the Community Album on its website.