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Date:     January 6, 2010

To:          RCPL Board of Trustees

From:    Sandra McNeely, Policy Committee Chair

Re:         Deadwood Historic Preservation Grant

 

 

Recommendation:  Approve submittal of a grant proposal  in the amount of $12,852 for the virtual Community Archives Project.  The proposal was prepared by Eric Abrahamson on the library’s behalf, and submitted to the Deadwood Historic Preservation Grant/Loan Fund.

 

The proposal would have no financial impact to the library; matching funds would come through requested federal funding through  a National Historic Prevation Records Center proposal and cost sharing by the partners, of which RCPL’s portion is in-kind.

 

 

Background: The proposal seeks support for the identification, description, digitization and publication of records pertaining to the history and development of Deadwood that are held by various Rapid City institutions and organizations. Work under this project will be administered by the Rapid City Public Library (RCPL) acting as the lead agency in a collaboration known as the Community Archive Consortium (CAC).

 

The CAC is a joint venture of the Rapid City Public Library, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the Journey Museum/Minnilusa Pioneer Museum, the Dahl Fine Arts Center and the Rapid City Historical Commission in association with the Homestake Adams Research Center (HARC) in Deadwood. The consortium was formed in 2009 to establish a virtual and physical archive of community records and historical materials documenting the history of Rapid City and the community’s relationship to the surrounding Black Hills region.

 

This project will support the goals of the Deadwood Historic Preservation program by providing access to historical resources that are currently unavailable to the building owners, interpreters and interested researchers served by the Deadwood Historic Preservation program. It will expand the distribution of traditional historical documents by digitizing and publishing materials online in a searchable catalogue. It will promote regional collaboration to preserve local historical materials and make them available. It will also provide critical archival training to interested repositories and institutions throughout the Black Hills.

 

 

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