Brooklyn Public Library

The Brooklyn Public Library is an independent system, separate from the New York City and Queens libraries. Brooklyn Public Library serves the borough's 2.5 million residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and use of more than 1,100 free Internet-accessible computers.  It is the mission of Brooklyn Public Library to ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of Brooklyn with free and open access to information for education, recreation and reference.

Project CHART is part of the library’s Brooklyn Collection.  The Brooklyn Collection is the local history division, providing a range of information and services about anything and everything Brooklyn. Our rich assortment of research materials and archival documents includes maps, historic Brooklyn photographs, ephemera, prints, and the full run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  The Brooklyn Collection maintains a blog called Brooklynology.

Project CHART’s digital lab is located in “the morgue” in the Library’s sub basement so we spend out time digitizing items while surrounded by old books and newspaper clippings.  Our main daily efforts are to digitize photograph collections but our students participate in a wide variety of activities, including original metadata creation, writing finding aids, technical research and authoring blog posts.  Our Interns are also given the opportunity to attend workshops, lectures and conferences around the city and across the country.  Our students and coordinator have attended METRO and SAA workshops among others locally as well as national conferences including SxSW, SAA and ALA.