Most of our local newspapers have been digitized, but a legacy microfilm collection and a couple of reader/printers are still available. Our current machines are more modern than what’s pictured here, but we've had microfilm for 73 years!
The real boon to researchers in this photo though was Elsie Datisman. Elsie was born in 1897, graduated from Dubuque Senior High School and the Western Reserve School of Library Science in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a reference librarian at Carnegie-Stout Public Library from 1923 to 1965, for 42 years, where she was known affectionately as “Miss Information Please!” She died in 1984.
