Worthington Memory Homepage, 2015-2025

This screenshot recreates how the Worthington Memory homepage appeared around the time of its launch in April, 2015. 

The first version of Worthington Memory was launched in 2002, leading in to Worthington’s bicentennial in 2003.

The second iteration, featured here, continued to feature scrapbook items, newspaper articles and cemetery records, but linked them with new tools and features, allowing for enhanced connection-making and discovery. Special attention was given to producing a standardized list of people and organizations. This version of the site was built with Drupal and Islandora and included a responsive design for access on all devices.

From 2015-2025, the number of  scrapbook items increased from about 1,600 to more than 2,800 and Worthington high school yearbooks from 1920 through 2007 were added. Worthington Libraries collaborated with the Ohio History Connection to digitize The Worthington News from 1925 through 1963, with the entire newspaper fully readable on Ohio Memory and individual issues linked from entries in the Worthington Memory news index.

In 2017, the site won the Online History Award from the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.

In 2018, the Worthington Memory collection of scrapbook items was one of the first in Ohio to be shared with the Digital Public Library of America, an all-digital library that aggregates metadata and thumbnail images for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images and more from libraries, archives and museums across the United States.

This version of the site was superseded by a third version launched at the close of 2025.