10/14/01 Good news from Plant City, Florida . Thanks for helping us spread the good word! Shelby Bender, Volunteer Director Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center "Digging for Gold...Searching for your Family Roots" Take up your gold shovels and put on your work gloves! Searching for your "family roots" has just become a little easier at the local genealogy and family history library, The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center, located in the historic 1914 Plant City High School Community Center at 605 North Collins Street, Plant City, Florida.  The Archives Center has just completed a one year  project of converting their genealogy and family history book collection to a Dewey Decimal Classification system and computerized database catalog that is now available through the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative catalog. The Archives Center catalog will become available for on-line use on October 15, 2001.  Just go to http://www.hcplc.org and look for the Catalog of the Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center.  The work was completed by the Archives Center volunteers and staff of the library system and consortium. The Archives Center collection, containing over 3500 titles, remains a private non-circulating collection.  The collection focuses on the Plant City, Hillsborough County, Florida and Southeastern United States areas.  Limited research requests will be handled by the volunteer staff via our newest resource media, email @ qcenter@tampbay.rr.com   In addition, staff and patrons of the center will have the use of three new computers with Internet access.  Genealogy on the Internet has gained much attention over the past few years.  The Internet provides a wide array of online resources including library catalogues, databases, message boards, family web sites, the Social Security Death Index and many more valuable research sources.  The catalogue conversion project, valued at over $25,000, was supported by a grant through the Library Services and Technology Act in the category of Linking Libraries and Communities and local match provided by the Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, the City of Plant City and Time Warner Cable. The grant partners included the volunteers of the Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center, selected staff of Bruton Memorial Library,  Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, Tampa Bay Library Consortium, and the State Library of Florida. Please visit the Archives Center soon. The Archives is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Tuesday, and 1  – 5 p.m. Wednesday – Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.