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Athens County Public Library
Cleveland Public Library
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Over the course of the past several years, NORWELD has been emphasizing the need for members to preserve, organize and make available their local history resources. The system has developed or supported two local history initiatives with local funds.
Northwest Ohio Narratives is an oral history project that involves a dozen member libraries. Since its inception in 2006, our members, with the assistance of a videographer from NORWELD, have captured over 140 interviews on videotape. These interviews, many of them relating to memories of local events and activities or experiences during World War II, have subsequently been transferred to DVD and the World Wide Web.
The other program provides for a system payment of 50% of the first year start-up costs for member libraries to join the R .B. Hayes Presidential Library Obituary Index project. This project, initiated in the 1970s by the Hayes staff, received support from NORWELD initially in 2003 when 12 of its members joined. Today, this project has 41 libraries participating with almost 1.5 million obituaries available online. A recent agreement between the library and Ancestry.com to merge their index with Ancestry's database will improve access to local obituaries since Ancestry has over 8 million unique visitors to their site every month.
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NORWELD, in cooperation with seven of its member libraries, has created a "web exhibit" about World War II that's been excerpted from over 140 oral history interviews conducted in the region. "My War: Northwest Ohioans Remember World War II" brings local perspective to a subject that was brought to renewed national prominence by a Ken Burns documentary, "The War."
The web exhibit covers subjects ranging from military training and combat to communications and censorship, life in the military, and the impact of the war on the home front. The clips are searchable by library where the interviews were shot as well as by subject.
The streaming video interviews can be found at www.ohnarratives.org/MyWar and are best viewed over a high speed Internet connection with Windows Media Player.
The BSM project is a cooperative effort of the Wood County District Public Library, BGSU, the Wood County Historical Society and NORWELD to create a searchable archive of historic photos of the Great Black Swamp region. The project is funded in part by the State Library of Ohio and can be found at: blackswampmemories.org
Additional information about the project may be obtained by contacting Allan Gray at NORWELD.
A cooperative program among the Center and 41 Ohio libraries where a web-based obituary index is maintained with over 1.5 million obituaries online. The site is currently receiving 800,000 hits per month. NORWELD member libraries are provided an initial subsidy by the system to join the project.
R.B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Becky Hill or Allan Gray