The county’s History Task Force has made its final recommendations to the county manager for how to preserve Arlington’s history online. Using an online survey, they garneted 450 responses, to determine how to make archival information available to residents online in the most effective way. The recommendations include creating a digital archive with a standardized cataloguing scheme, allocating staff, facilities, and funding to conduct this archival work and appointing a dedicated records coordinator for each County department, and collaborating with Arlington Public Schools to integrate local history topics into the school curriculum. These recommendations will be implemented over the next 5 years.
Arlington Public Library’s Center for Local History is the community’s official repository of documents, oral histories and other records, and includes materials donated by individuals, civic groups and businesses. The Department of Technology Services is charged with preserving millions of digital county records.
For the full report, visit http://arlingtonvalibrary.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2015/12/AHTF-FINAL.pdf.