Your community’s story is already being told. Make sure it’s kept.

Local history doesn’t only live in the stacks. It lives in your neighbors. TheirStory helps public libraries capture, analyze, organize and share the voices that make a place what it is.

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CASE STUDY

LAPL Builds a System-Wide Oral History Program

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Big impact made easy.
Intuitive tools allow you to focus on what matters most.

Bring stories in

Put them to work

Many uses, across the entire library.
From showing impact for budget planning to starting a new oral history program - the options are endless.

Show value

Show your library's value to the community and funders

Thematic analysis surfaces what your community keeps coming back to, so you have first-person evidence, not just circulation numbers.

  • Themes surfaced across your whole collection
  • First-person evidence for board meetings and budget conversations
  • Real voices for grant applications and reports
Themes · Community memory project
A place to gather34
Neighborhood change27
Local schools21
Main Street businesses15

"This branch is where I learned to read, and where my kids did too."A place to gather · Interview 08, 14:22

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From Start to Finish
From first recording to public collection, it all happens in one place. Move faster with tools made for storytelling projects, then host and share your stories without the usual headaches.

Bring your collections to life.

Whether you're a large archive, a small library, or anything in between, TheirStory can help.

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