2026 MLA|DLA Annual Conference

Organizational history and institutional memory are ephemeral and often lost as years pass. Informational institutions can implement strategies to preserve their own history. Internal and external stakeholders alike benefit from such cultural preservation initiatives. The Prince George’s Room of the Hyattsville Branch (PGCMLS) has been digitizing old memorabilia and historical documents that document library system history. Digital tools such as Omeka and Google Drive have been essential to our digital preservation strategy. We will discuss the use of Omeka as a digital exhibit space and a repository and how we connected it to a public digital special collections page.