Licking County Records & Archives Blog

Volunteer Bob Grove Bob Grove began volunteering with us in December 2012.  Since then he has helped with several tasks such as cataloging archival materials, scanning Jail Register  volumes, preparing document collections for scanning and helping with box pickups and deliveries.  Bob is a native of Newark, Ohio.  He graduated from Newark Catholic High School and Denison University.  He is currently employed as an Imaging and File Clerk with the Licking County Prosecutor's Office. Jesse Grove on the far right, with staff in the Licking County Courthouse (undated, ca. 1925) Bob also donated pictures to us of his grandfather Jesse Grove.  Jesse Grove was Licking County Auditor from 1923-31, and Mayor of Newark from 1936-40.  He was a mailman before he was elected Auditor, and he farmed along Flint Ridge Road after his term as Mayor.  If you have any old pictures of people in Licking County Government which you would allow us to copy or to have, we would be happy to tal

Licking County Records & Archives, at 39 S. Buena Vista St. There were several very significant developments in the Records & Archives Department last year: Imaging Technician Corinne Johnson and Senior Imaging Technician Angie Spray scanned a total of 305,427 Clerk of Courts and Probate images.  Angie, Corinne and Records Manager Katy Klettlinger have also been involved with the implementation of OnBase, which is an electronic document management system.  They consulted with the Juvenile and Probate Court Divisions to see how OnBase would be useful in those offices.  Angie and Corinne are now both certified OnBase System Administrators.  According to Angie, OnBase " will help departments locate and retrieve documents more easily.  It also has workflow capabilities that allow you to have a document--let’s say a purchase order--which needs to be seen by multiple people.  You can send that document to everyone that it needs to go to, and they can all do what they nee