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Public library seeking votes for state grant

L’ANSE — A finalist for a state grant, the L’Anse Area Schools Baraga County Public Library needs your votes next week to seal the deal.

The library needs the grant to make its old microfiche records of the local newspaper computer accessible, an estimated $22,000 project.

This is the school’s second try to “digitalize” its L’Anse Sentinel copies currently on microfiche, those little blue rectangles full of data only revealed by using a special desktop machine.

Send numerous tweets or postcards for “#DigLAnse” to help the library win the 2017 Michigan Digital Newspaper Grant Contest, which is hosted by the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.

Each tweet is worth one vote, while a postcard is worth 10 votes. The community that sends the most votes wins.

To vote by Twitter, send tweets with #DigLAnse, without using an automated system. Twitter voting will be next week, from Jan. 23 through Jan 28.

Or send individual postcards featuring a Michigan image to Clarke Historical Library, 250 E. Preston St., Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 48859, noting #DigLAnse in the memo section. The library has postcards available for people to send early next week, to ensure they get downstate by Jan. 28.

The other finalists this year are MacDonald Public Library, Shelby Area District Library, Leelanau Historical Society, Sterling Heights Historical Commission and Utica Heritage Association.

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