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Libraries are trusted community venues held in high regard by a wide range of the population. Libraries are also family orientated and one of the few services that seek to cater for all family members.

Using unique local material from the collections of the Library service the sense of neighbourhood and identity can be placed in a historical and present-day perspective.

Learners on this project will contribute to this website by producing local community content. This may take the form of written reminiscences, written interviews with older members of the community, audio interviews, digital photographs, designing webpages...

In doing this the participants will use digital media to communicate something of the history of their neighbourhoods. Digital cameras to record contemporary sights, scanners to process images from a previous time, word processing and web editing packages to present material to a wider audience, imaging applications to edit and transform visual materials, audio recordings to capture the voices of the community...

By the end of the six week course we hope that the people who have participated in it will have developed a new degree of confidence in dealing with digital media, from the basic functions of a computer to the multimedia elements of sound and vision.