On Saturday April 25 at 10:30, our Digital Navigator Cole Rossetter, will host a session at the library to demonstrate how to use some of the digital resources the library has access to. 

The library has a couple of resources that are specifically about local history.  We have an Internet Archive page that is searchable and has the Monterey News, the Town Reports that go back to the 1860’s, and numerous other books and manuscripts, some published and some not, that are what we have for history of the town. 

We also have a You Tube channel that has many oral histories of the town and videos of towns events, including the 100th anniversary Parade from 1947.  Cole will explain how to access these, and as you might guess, googling Monterey local history will bring you to California more quickly than you could fly there.  There are ways to avoid this.

If you have writing that you would like to have on our Internet Archive page, whether it be a family history, or recollections of living in Monterey, or a neighborhood history, we can put it on Internet Archive.

Another resource is Digital Commonwealth, operated by the Boston Public Library.  Sorry to say that if you search Digital Commonwealth most of the images are from Monterey California.  We can change that by having more submissions from our town. Our membership allows us to build that collection.

The library also has a subscription to Ancestry Library edition.  Access is only available from the Library itself.  The Friends of the Monterey Library sponsor this subscription.  We also now have a subscription to Newspapers.com Library edition.  Now as you research your ancestors you’ll be able to go more in depth with digitized newspapers.

Now that you’ve read about theses resources, come down and let Cole assist you in using them!