The Orangeville Public Library has launched a revitalized local history centre at its Mill Street location.

Resources on the Town of Orangeville and Dufferin County are now located in one central site in the library for easy access. New titles have been added to the local history collection as well as re-introduced titles that have been in storage in recent years.

The local history centre also boasts a new state-ofthe art digital microfilm reader that allows users to scan microfilm and microfiche to an e-mail, CD, memory stick or printer. An image can be magnified many times and visually adjusted for maximum printing quality.

Technical services coordinator Kim Welsh says the library is committed to growing the local history collection.

Several local family genealogies will be available as well as material such as Jack Brooksbank’s collection of drawings of Dufferin.

Orangeville District Secondary School recently donated a DVD of older yearbooks and a documentary on their recent anniversary celebration.

The updated collection has been made possible thanks to the community contributions at book sales, the Dufferin County Museum and Archives for contributions to the print collection, and Van Harten Surveying for a contribution to purchase the microfilm reader.