Thank you all for your input! The following is a list of the responses: AmeriScan 50690 Rizzo Dr. Shelby Twp, MI 48315 586-532-9995 Graphic Sciences Madison Heights, MI 1-800-397-6620 Kent Records Management Grand Rapids, MI 1-800-536-6681 Sanilac Computer Products 75 South Elk Street Sandusky, MI 48471 810-648-3200 msoflin@gmail.com OCI Yearbook Program 405-527-0833 ocirc@doc.state.ok.us For digitizing newspapers, check with the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University. Your contact will be Frank Boles. Le Roy G. Barnett I have a take on digitization of obits from various newspapers. I used to be the digitization coordinator at WMUs digitization center. Copyright was an issue from many of the papers. They would not give us permission to scan them and put them up on the Internet. I see their point. When you scan them and 'publish' them that is seen as crossing a line. Clipping them and having them in the library is a much lesser thing than putting them online. (we think they were looking at how to get people to come to their websites instead - more visitors means more advertisers . . . ?) We are not sure. This was 8 or more years ago. It my have been that we were helping a smaller library do the project. Just be sure to look at it all the way through before you do all of the work and then cant put it on the web. Even if the paper is no longer publishing, somebody, owns the rights (a parent company, descendants of the owner, etc.) Ask a copyright expert, or get permission in writing - save the paperwork that you 'did due diligence' to ask permission of the correct rights holder. We could not get the rights and it killed the project. It is a big grey area, even if you are not doing it for a profit, it is important. Lou Ann Morgan Communication Coordinator Administration, University Libraries The best obituary index I have seen belongs to the Public Libraries of Saginaw. I think it is a home grown program, go to the Public Libraries of Saginaw website then go to obituaries and try it out. You can contact Trish Burns as far as who owns it and if copies are available. John Sheridan, Vicksburg Farmington Hills writing from alumni account (I read lists from here). We use graphic sciences. They can microfilm too. They are used by Northville (their stuff has won prizes and they have stuff to help, I will forward the slides from that recent event from my work account. Meantime: www.northvillehistory.org<http://www.northvillehistory.org> and http://www.scanittoday.com/ Mary Carleton I can't say that we've made any decisions about how to progress, but we are more knowledgeable about what needs to be done BEFORE we digitize... Have an awesome weekend! Perri Saunders, Director White Pigeon Township Library 102 N. Kalamazoo St., P.O. Box 399 White Pigeon, MI 49099 Phone 269.483.7409 Fax 269.483.9923 perri@monroe.lib.mi.us<mailto:perri@monroe.lib.mi.us> Brighten the corner where you are.