New Ontario Digital Collections

The latest issue of the OurDigitalWorld quarterly newsletter includes a list of new digital collections from VITA members

• Weston Historical Society has digitized and uploaded 35,000 newspaper pages from fragile paper & microfilm
• Waterloo Public Library has added 125,000 pages of the Waterloo Chronicle and related titles from microfilm and paper, plus their index records, dating back to 1868
• Newmarket Public Library digitized the 1967 History of the Town of Newmarket, a 370-page text by Ethel Willson Trewhella
• Timmins Public Library complemented their existing online index of the Porcupine Advance newspaper with 25,000 digitized microfilm pages
• Oakville Public Library replaced 15,000 pages of already-digitized issues of the Oakville Beaver and Oakville North News, improving image quality over old microfiche with better-preserved paper copies
• The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario digitized some 90,000 Tweedsmuir histories and Women's Institute documents over the course of 2018, and continue to gather and scan more materials from all over the province

VITA is an initiative of Ontario registered not-for-profit OurDigitalWorld's, a"web-based end-to-end solution for libraries, museums, archives, heritage and historical and other groups looking to build, manage and display digital collections of images, newspapers, oral histories, 3D objects, and more."