The Foundation is chartered as a support organization, and as such has made numerous grants for the benefit of the library including support in the following areas:
- Digitization Project
- The Family Place Project
- The Local History Center
- State of the art video projection and sound system upgrades to the Meeting Room
- Other building enhancements, including furnishings, solar shades and acoustical treatments.
- Funding for parking and exterior beautification.
- To date, the Foundation has given over $660,000 to the library
For a complete funding history please contact library administration at 883-4400, Ext. 300.
Foundation Funds Digitization Project Will Make Unique Library Collections Accessible to the Public. The Port Washington Library Foundation announced a grant of $10,000 to the library’s Local History Center to fund a historic preservation project. Thousands of photographs, postcards, maps, written documents and audio-taped interviews about life in Port Washington over the past 200 years will be captured electronically and available via the library's website. The grant will enable the library to create a digital scanning station in its Local History Center. Under the direction of Elly Shodell, archivists will prepare materials, enter data, caption, organize and digitize carefully selected examples from the library’s unique historical collections. The project will benefit genealogists, researchers, students, teachers, authors, and all those who are interested in past and present people, places and events of Port Washington.
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