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Introduction This Project Tips Manual is designed to provide a practical guide for other organizations undertaking digitization projects. We hope that our experiences are valuable for preparing similar projects, from writing the grant proposal to launching the final product. The Project Tips are arranged to match the different arcs in the project lifespan. Within each of these sections and subsections are contextual information, a series of tips or guiding questions to illustrate the events that make up different aspects of a digitization project, and technical information from the Grey Highlands Public Library Digitization Project. For more details about the project contact the Grey Highlands Public Library at: agnesmacphail@greyhighlandspubliclibrary.com. The Grey Highlands Public Library Digitization Project Recognizing that regional libraries needs to extend beyond brick and mortar services, the GHPL initiated a project in 2007 to digitize local resources and historical documents. Based on a collaborative partnership with Grey County museums, archives and publishers, the GHPL Digitization Project is two-pronged. One part of the project is a stand-alone website about Agnes Macphail that is accompanied by a Digital Collection of original materials collected from local repositories and private collections. The other part is the digitization of the Flesherton Advance and Markdale Standard, two newspapers that have served these communities since the 1880s and are now incredible resources for all manners of historians, genealogists, and interested readers. The Grey Highlands Public Library (GHPL) Digitization Project acts as a resource for researchers, but also showcases Grey County's involvement in the cultural, political and social development of Ontario and Canada. By digitizing local, primary material using the Our Ontario tool kits, GHPL is not only dynamically contributing to the web of knowledge available through the Internet it is also making a proactive measure toward conserving and protecting heritage material in its archival form. 3 Funding the Project The GHPL proposed their Digitization Project to the Ministry of Culture who responded with funding in the form of a Library Strategic Development Fund (LSDF) grant that would afford a facilitator and a ten-month endeavour. Since extra staffing was necessary within this time span, GHPL also applied to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) and was awarded a Job Creation Partnership (JCP) grant to hire a Project Assistant. Helping us keep within our limited budget, hosting services for the Agnes Macphail Website is provided by the GHPL's local server, Bruce Telecom (BMTS), who also sponsor the library's home website. The Digital Collection and Newspaper Index are hosted and managed by Our Ontario free of charge as part of Knowledge Ontario Services.