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Vol. 24:3 ISSN 0160-8460 December 1996
NHPRC-Supported Project Leverages More Grant Funds for Concord Free Public Library
An NHPRC grant of $59,487 made to the Concord Free Public Library in 1995 for a two-year project to arrange and describe materials in the library's Vault Collection has resulted in an additional grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. The NHPRC grant provided funds to process approximately 800 feet of archival and manuscript materials and to prepare MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) records and finding aids to improve access to the collection. As the materials were identified, processed, and cataloged, the project staff realized that many of the materials had sufficient historical value to warrant special conservation treatment and/or microfilming. A grant of $10,000 made by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners last spring is making this additional work possible.
The library's Vault Collection includes materials ranging from papers of American literary figures like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson to items documenting everyday life in Concord in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as account books, parish records, and diaries of lesser-known residents.
