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The project began in 2018 to create an online platform to ensure wide access to the records for researchers and historians with research and evaluation on the appropriate software\u00a0for the scanning, storage, display and retrieval of the digitized archives of County Laois. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>This year the site will be further enhanced with customisations for the storing of media,\u00a0such\u00a0as old film\/video and spoken work \/audio files enabling users to listen and watch these unique Laois records remotely . <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This online repository and platform contains <span>Workhouse records, County Council Minute books 1913-1933, archival and rare Laois Maps, archives of Helen Roe, Petty Session registers, Archives of the Portlaoise Technical School, the Scully and Redmond Collections, and large collections of local photographs\u00a0which have been\u00a0donated to the library service over the last number of years. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11783,"template":"","class_list":["post-10868","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Archiving our Past and Future: Laois County Digital Archives - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The County Library &amp; Archives Service is custodian of collections of documents, books and memorabilia, all of which enhance the local history and culture of Laois for its citizens, and the digital archive promotes these collections now and in the future.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/archiving-our-past-and-future-laois-county-digital-archives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Archiving our Past and Future: Laois County Digital Archives - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The County Library &amp; Archives Service is custodian of collections of documents, books and memorabilia, all of which enhance the local history and culture of Laois for its citizens, and the digital archive promotes these collections now and in the future. 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