Omar L. Gallaga

A project to record the memories of residents in King County, WA—particularly Asian Americans displaced during World War II—is set to begin soon. King County Library System was awarded an $800,000 Mellon Foundation grant that will be used to hire a staffer to oversee a project that will create memory labs at two different locations.

Digitization projects in Maryland, Montana, and Houston, TX, present a glimpse of current trends in digital archives, as state and city libraries work to create collections that reflect local and regional history.