Monroe County Public Library Flickr collection - Florida Keys

Monroe County Public Library 2006, Florida Keys--Public Library's photostream, viewed 5th July 2010, http://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/



The Monroe County Public Library system covers 5 community libraries in the Florida Keys island chain. Over the past 4 years they have digitised a proportion (approximately 7,500 images) of their archival image collection with the help of volunteers. Many thousands remain to be digitised. The aim of the digitisation project is to make the images available to those people who cannot visit in person and since the project was initiated the site has had over 400,000 visits. The collection covers such areas as historic buildings, fishing, personal collections donated to the library, the aftermath of Hurricane Georges, and recently a collection of WWII waterfront passes. These images can be viewed as separate collections



This collection of images is accessed through the library web site and is included in the area of 'Keys History' along with a history blog and oral histories and is aimed at social researchers, historians and local patrons with an interest in the history of their area. The site is considered authoritive as it is a local government authority and has links to other government organisations as well as an email contact for the site at the government agency. The latest update to the site was June 11th 2010.



The site can be visited here http://www.flickr.com/photos/keyslibraries/