Celebrate Preservation Week

Memories and treasures should last a lifetime and be passed on to future generations. Preservation Week seeks to inspire actions to preserve personal, family, and community collections in addition to library, museum, and archive collections.

Libraries alone hold 3 billion items. A treasure trove of uncounted additional items is held by individuals, families, and communities. These collections include books, manuscripts, photographs, prints and drawings, and objects such as maps, textiles, paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and furniture, to give just a sample. They include moving images and sound recordings that capture performing arts, oral history, and other records of our creativity and history. Digital collections are growing fast, and their formats quickly become obsolescent, if not obsolete.

In celebration of Preservation week, the Dover Public Library will present a series of workshops on our memory lab. Learn how to digitize your family photos, VHS tapes and audio cassettes.  Workshops will be held Saturday, April 21 from 10-12 AM and Wednesday, April 25 from 2-4 PM, and 6-8 PM. 

Thursday, April 26, from 3-4 PM our book mending Librarian, Aimee, will be demonstrating how she repairs library books that come back with ripped pages, loose pages and broken spines. You can also pick up a free hand out on how to care for and preserve items in your personal collection.