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It is home to the Laois Collection, a specialist collection on the local, social, political, economic and geographic history of the county.<\/p>\n<p>The digitisation project is committed to coverting materials from the collection into digital format including\u00a0The Colonel James Fitzmaurice Collection that contains newspapers and other archive material relating to the first east-west transatlantic flight in April 1928. The collection belongs to Teddy Fennelly, well-known historian, aviation enthusiast and author of the book \u2018Fitz and the Famous Flight.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to make available online a selection of its resources. The project prioritises unique and popular collections to engage local, national and international visitors to the Local Studies website. High demand archival material is also being digitised to prevent deterioration and enhance access to remote users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Archive\u00a0includes material from private collections. 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