The “Neophytos Doukas” municipal library possesses a small but valuable historical collection. Due to its nature, and the fact that is located in a small remote village in mountainous Northern Greece (Ano Pedina, Zagori), the library is faced with a variety of problems ranging from the lack of resources to outdated but valuable collections, together with the inability to meet today’s information needs. Most of these encountered problems are more or less typical of small libraries burdened by historical collections very rarely used but too valuable to discard. Equally, the “Neophytos Doukas” library has kept its traditional role and modus operandi, protecting the collection but not really servicing a clientele, nevertheless, as the information revolution grew, the library’s role increasingly became more redundant. Considering the cited needs, we proposed to use the new technologies not only to revive the library, but to also conserve and promote the use of the old collections along with the provision of new services. The “Neophytos Doukas” library was used as a pilot project for achieving reorganization while promoting and increasing the usage and services of a ‘typical’ small village library. Thus, the major goal for this project was to take a ‘dormant’ library turning it into a vivid organization. As a first step in digitization, the Greenstone platform was used in order to create a library which may place the historical collection on the map and make it available to the international research community. At the same time the use of the network through the library’s facilities enabled and provided the much needed access to a wealth of information to the local community. In this work the first step for the creation of the digital library is presented. In summarizing, the digital library was designed in such a manner that it can accommodate archival and museum collections stored in the village and the surrounding region. Dublin Core is used for the metadata description and along with translations it promises information access to a larger audience.