Preserve Your Family’s Legacy

Have you ever wished you could preserve your precious family photos and videos for future generations? The Wichita Genealogical Society is working to make that dream a possibility for you and our community. We’re thrilled to partner with the Advanced Learning Library to create a Memory Lab—a state-of-the-art space designed to help you digitize and preserve your family’s history. Imagine having the tools to transform aging photos, home videos, and treasured documents into digital keepsakes that will last forever. This incredible resource will give families throughout Wichita the opportunity to safeguard their legacies.

We are pleased to announce the Memory Lab is now open!

Epson FastFotoFF-680W: Preserve what’s priceless with the Epson^® FastFoto FF-680W — the World’s Fastest Personal Photo Scanner. Scan thousands of photos — as fast as 1 photo per second. Easily restore, save, organize and share photos, postcards, panoramas, documents and more. The convenient mobile app enables you to capture the voice of loved ones and create slideshows, so you can easily share stories about your photos right from your smartphone, from a first-hand perspective, for generations to come. Plus, FastFoto brings old photos to life with auto enhancement, color restoration and more. Offering the ultimate in versatility, it includes a variety of format options for quick sharing, archiving and enlargements.

Epson Perfection V600: The Epson Perfection V600 Photo delivers outstanding quality scans from photos, film, slides and everyday documents. With 6400 x 9600 dpi resolution, this high performance scanner ensures precision film scanning for sharp, vivid reproductions up to 17" x 22" Featuring DIGITAL ICE® for both film and prints, one-touch color restoration and ArcSoft PhotoStudio, this scanner provides a complete photo restoration solution.

CZUR ET24 Professional Book Scanner: The CZUR ET24 Pro is a high-quality overhead scanner that makes digitizing books, photos, and documents fast and easy. With a 24-megapixel camera, built-in lighting, and smart curve-flattening technology, it captures clear, glare-free images—even from bound books. Pages can be scanned in about 1.5 seconds and saved as searchable PDFs or editable Word and Excel files. It’s an excellent tool for preserving family histories, photos, and fragile materials without damaging them.