Earlier this year, Alder Grove Heritage Society applied to the Gulf & Fraser Foundation for funding to purchase new technology to help move its Digitization Programme forward.
The society was very pleased to learn on June 22nd that its application was successful, and with much gratitude to Gulf & Fraser the funding was received for two new scanners, two new high-powered computers, an in-house file server and a one year subscription to CatalogIT - all of which will lead to increased availability of AGHS documents, records, objects and photographs for AGHS members, our local community and those around the world who may have an interest in the many holdings of Aldergrove's Community Museum & Archives.
What exactly does this mean? It means that we now have the computing power to process high-resolution images of everything in the museum, while previously donated laptops (for which we are grateful as they can
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