WELCOME

Richard A. Gustafson

Chair, Communications, Marketing, and Fundraising Committee Housatonic Valley Association Board of Directors

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"We appreciate the DLL@HPL's personalized attention to this project. They guided us every step of the way, including showing us how best to access and use the digitized files. The DLL@HPL is a great resource to the State of Connecticut.”

Cat White

Director of Collections and Public Programs

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Hartford, CT

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"We recently had a couple of our historic and very fragile 19th-century documents digitized by the DLL at the Hartford Public Library. Brad and Nara created astonishingly high-resolution images of one of our most important documents, the 1803-1805 census of the Black residents living in Hartford. The images from DLL will afford expanded access to researchers, greatly improving scholarship around this hugely important document, without concern for damaging the original. Brad and Nara at the DLL are fantastic to work with and professionals who I trust to properly handle our historic collection items. We are incredibly fortunate to have a local option for such high-quality, secure digitization and we hope to continue working with them to digitize a much larger portion of our collection."

Susan Klein

For the Mermin Decagon

New Haven, CT

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"In 1905, to escape pogroms in Eastern Europe, my grandparents emigrated to New Haven with two young children. As the street peddler became a shop owner, the two children became ten. By 1945 their parents had died, and the ten siblings – five college graduates, four WWII veterans, six married, and all gainfully employed – formalized their family organization as The Mermin Decagon. My extended family has held reunions every year, helped each other as needed, and kept archives – twenty notebooks of them! – ever since.

With the help of HPL-DLL, we have begun to digitize these archives so that family members anywhere can see them from home. Working with the DLL has been pure pleasure, as they have quickly achieved beautiful results I had only dreamed of – even handwritten documents can now be searched! Brad, Nara, and the interns have made sure we can access the digital files from our secure family platform, and have been extremely clear and patient with a techno-dinosaur like me. I think they even appreciate my project as much as I appreciate them!"

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, PhD

Dean & Chief Administrative Officer

Professor of History and Latinx Studies
UCONN

Hartford, CT

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"Nara Giannella’s outstanding work in the Digital Library Lab transformed my faded and scratched historical slides and negatives into vibrant, highly usable documents for my Mexican migration research project."

James Mahoney

Associate Program Director, Connecticut Transportation Institute, UCONN

Executive Program Director, Connecticut Advanced Pavement Lab, UCONN

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“We had accumulated a collection of early to mid-20th Century pavement related glass lantern slides, black and white photographic prints, and negatives from various sources that we had long wanted to digitize for display and educational purposes. We learned that the Hartford Public Library had a full digitization studio, the Digital Library Lab, right in downtown Hartford, so we contacted them for a quote. Within a week, we agreed on a price, got the materials to the DLL@HPL, and received amazing digitized images. We were thrilled to see them brought to the digital age!”

Philip Trager

Photographer

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"I entrusted the DLL to digitize a significant number of my photographs. Brad and Nara are a delight to work with. They have been responsive to any concerns I've had throughout the project, the scan quality is excellent, and very importantly, they are based in Hartford, so I did not have to risk shipping my work."

Linda Wooster, President

Bethany Historical Society, Inc.

Bethany, CT

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"We are very pleased with the high-quality digital images that were scanned/photographed for the Bethany Historical Society. We brought in hundreds of pages of hand-written historical diaries and ledgers from the late 19th century-early 20th century to be digitized at the Digital Library Lab. Most of our valuable materials were fragile and were handled with extreme care. We requested TIFFs and JPEGs to be saved onto an external hard drive for our convenience and the folders containing the files were well organized.
The updates I received were important throughout the process and I couldn’t be happier with the results.
I appreciate all of the work that Brad, Nara, and interns put into this project and would highly recommend their services to anyone who is looking for their materials to be digitized. It was a pleasure working with DLL."

​​Germaine Valentine

Wife of the late Hilton Valentine, the original lead guitarist of the rock band The Animals

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"I needed to have two scrapbooks measuring 2' X 3' scanned into digital files for use in a documentary. Brad Overturf at HPL's Digital Library Lab did an incredible job. The scrapbooks are 61 years old. Every time I opened them, I would have to secure photos that came loose as they are barely clinging to the page due to the yellowed, cracked, tape. When I opened them to point some things out to him, more fell out. He was completely understanding and patient. We took a few minutes to carefully flip through the pages to secure any photos in need. He then eased my worries about leaving my scrapbooks with him for the day. Throughout the entire process, Brad was attentive and professional. He truly cared about completing the job to the highest standard. This experience allows me to trust him implicitly with any future project."

Anonymous

Massachusetts Customer

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"A perfect job on over 400 Kodachrome slides from the 1980's meticulously transferred to high-resolution JPEG images... I'm very pleased!  The only thing elided from the JPEGs was the dust on the slides.  Much obliged!"

Martha Conneely

Park Development Manager

Riverfront Recapture

Hartford, CT

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"I recently worked with the Hartford Public Library Digital Library Lab to digitize a set of large planning documents, and the experience was excellent from start to finish. Nara Giannella from the Digital Lab was professional, responsive and a pleasure to work with throughout the entire process. The Lab delivered high-quality digital copies quickly and at a very reasonable price. Their attention to detail and commitment to service made the project smooth and efficient. I highly recommend the Digital Library Lab for any digitization needs—it's a valuable resource that exceeds expectations. I look forward to working with the Digital Library Lab again."