• Tepper Intergenerational Program
• Digitization Project
• Career Coaching Services
• 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 $1,500,000 to the library.

For a complete funding history please contact library administration at 883-4400, Ext. 300.

Lieber Album 2, March 1916 Snow

Foundation Funds Digitization Project: Unique Library Collections Now Accessible to the Public

The Port Washington Library Foundation’s $10,000 grant to the library’s Local History Center funds an historic preservation project.

Thousands of photographs, postcards, maps, written documents and audio-taped interviews about life in Port Washington over the past 200 years are being captured electronically and made available via the library’s website.

The grant allowed the library to create a digital scanning station in its Local History Center. Under the direction of Elly Shodell, archivists prepare materials, enter data, caption, organize and digitize carefully selected examples from the library’s unique historical collections. The project benefits genealogists, researchers, students, teachers, authors, and all those interested in past and present people, places and events of Port Washington.

For More information about the Port Washington Library Foundation, or to make a donation to this project, please call (516) 883-4400, Ext. 180 or e-mail to saffrenm@pwpl.org.