About
Worthington Memory is here to connect you to your hometown history! We invite you to remember, explore and engage with life in Worthington, Ohio.
Browse fascinating people, familiar places and favorite organizations via our online scrapbook and databases of newspaper articles and cemetery records.
Explore timely themes and interesting topics.
Background
Worthington Memory is a cooperative partnership that includes Worthington Libraries, the Worthington Historical Society and other community organizations. We collect and digitize local history materials and make them available in a digital library of photographs and documents, indexed newspaper articles, burial records from Worthington's three cemeteries, historic artifacts, audio and video.
The digitization program was originally developed in 2001 as the community prepared to celebrate Worthington’s bicentennial in 2003. The Worthington Historical Society seeded the site with several hundred items, establishing a core collection upon which to build.
Volunteers have been integral to the program. In 2004, as his Eagle Scout service project, student volunteer Joe Miracle expanded the call to for submissions to individuals. In addition, more than 50 members of the community have helped with many aspects of the project, including scanning items, indexing newspapers and transcribing documents.
Elsewhere on the web
Through our participation in the Ohio Digital Network, we share our scrapbook items with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), an all-digital library that aggregates metadata and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images and more from libraries, archives and museums across the United States. Our collections on DPLA are updated four times a year to reflect new additions to our site.
The Worthington News from its inception in 1925 through 1963 can be accessed in full on Ohio Memory. Additionally, articles from ThisWeek Worthington from 2002 through its final issue in 2023 are accessible via Worthington Libraries' ThisWeek News database. When viewing indexed entries on this site, those with online full-text availability include links under the "Full text" heading on the page.
Technical information
Worthington Memory is built with Drupal, underpinned by the Islandora framework and the Fedora repository. To describe digitized objects in the scrapbook, we use terms from Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Type Vocabulary, Library of Congress Resource Types Scheme, MARC Genre Term List, Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials and Thesaurus For Graphic Materials.
Our site is designed to display on all devices and displays, though some advanced functionality may not be available on some devices. The site is accessible on smartphones and small devices, but is best experienced on large screens.