- Dates
- 2021-03-13 – 2021-03-28
- Kind
- Fundraising
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historylibrarynewspapersheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In March 2021, the Beaver Island District Library organized community support for a contest to digitize the Beaver Beacon. Residents could submit library- available postcards or donate toward cards, with additional social-media voting in the final week. The campaign connected the island’s public library and historical community to preservation of its newspaper record.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves the campaign instructions and deadline but not final votes, ranking, or proof that digitization was awarded as a result.
Sources
- The library solicited donated postcards and described a postcard-and-social-media voting competition whose stated prize was digitization of deteriorating Beaver Beacon issues. It does not establish the contest result or digitization completion.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016064
- This adjacent duplicate notice repeats the postcard solicitation and library postcard-making plan. It is preserved as a separate archive source but is not independent corroboration.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016065
- The library explained that the digitization grant competition required postcard and social-media votes and that the older Beaver Beacon editions were deteriorating. It solicited donated postcards and described library-based postcard-making before the later voting deadlines. The notice does not establish the contest result or digitization completion.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016066
- The library encouraged postcard and Twitter voting in a community contest whose stated prize was digitization of the Beaver Beacon. The notice reports that one postcard counted as ten votes and that the deadline for mailed cards was March 21, with tweets counted March 22–28. The archived thread does not preserve final vote totals or the contest result.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016078
- The library encouraged postcard and Twitter voting in a community contest whose stated prize was digitization of the Beaver Beacon. The notice reports that one postcard counted as ten votes and that the deadline for mailed cards was March 21, with tweets counted March 22–28. The archived thread does not preserve final vote totals or the contest result.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016077
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community campaigns for Beaver Beacon digitization, 2021”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-beaver-beacon-digitization-vote-2021/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island District Library, “Anyone have some postcards to donate?”, Beaver Island Forum, March 5, 2021. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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