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Digital Preservation Index

Digital Preservation Project

Project Mission Statement

The Greenville Public Library Digital Preservation Project has the goal of preserving in digital form documents known to be of historical value and of interest to our community.

Documents marked "(Adobe Acrobat required)" require the free Acrobat Reader. If your computer needs this software please click on the incon below.

 

Greenville Public Library Dedication, 1991: A Digital Preservation Document. This document preserves in digital form the dedication booklet prepared for the May 5th, 1991 dedication of the expanded and renovated Greenville Public Library. (Adobe Acrobat required)

Greenville Public Library Dedication 1991: Photographic Archive. This page contains the 41 photographs taken at the dedication of the new library building.

Greenville Public Library Renovation and Construction 1990-1991. Photographic Archive. Book One of Four. Images 1-50 with annotations.

Greenville Public Library Renovation and Construction 1990-1991. Photographic Archive. Book Two of Four. Images 51-100 with annotations.

Greenville Public Library Renovation and Construction 1990-1991. Photographic Archive. Book Three of Four. Images 101-150. with annotations.

Greenville Public Library Renovation and Construction 1990-1991. Photographic Archive. Book Four of Four. Images 151-191 with annotations.

The Greenville Public Library: The First Hundred Years 1882-1982 by Kay Kirlin Moore. This singular history of the Greenville Public Library was scanned directly from one of only two copies of this document that exist. The photograph of Kay Kirlin Moore was drawn from the photo archives of the Greenville Public Library.

18th Century Houses of Smithfield An Illustrated Talk by Kay K. and Louise W. Moore for the Historical Society of Smithfield January 2d, 1985. (Adobe Acrobat required)

Sebille Property A personal remembrance with photographs by Lois Fitts of a lost Smithfield house

19th Century Board of Trustee Minutes (Adobe Acrobat required) 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1891, 1895
A note on missing years. The notebook of Oscar Tobey is a bound continuous document. The text flows across pages without interuption. Years without entries are completely unaccounted for. An attempt will be made to unravel this mystery.

Town of Smithfield Tax Book 1873. You may wish to increase the document size to 125% to 150% to best dispay the information on your computer screen depending on your monitor settings. Because of the need to preserve image quality download file size is 5.9 MB. (Adobe Acrobat required)

20th Century Board of Trustee Minutes (Adobe Acrobat required) 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968.

Photographic Record of the Greenville Public Library for the years 1956-1963.

Constitution of the Greenville Public Library 1954.(Adobe Acrobat required)