IMNSHO, you should sign up for the SHRAB “Disaster Recovery” workshop because:
- You’ll learn new skills
- It’ll make you a better steward of your cultural heritage collection
- If we get hit by a hurricane, each of our constituent organizations is likely going to be so busy taking care of our own damage that we won’t be able to help each other
- It’s ever so cheap ($10 — and that includes lunch!)
- It’s being held nearby (at Bluffton Branch Library)
- It’s required — if you want to win a SC SHRAB grant
Beaufort County Library has won two SHRAB grants: an $800 grant in 2004 to process and arrange the Ciehanski Papers, a modern political collection, and the Byrne Miller Papers, a dance related collection as well as a $9800 award (2007) to begin preparing the contents of the Lucille Hasell Culp Collection for use by the public. Total thus far: $10,600 that I did not have to beg Beaufort County government to provide to my part of the Library. $10,600 doesn’t seem like a whole lot to some of you but to an operation like I run, it has made a tremendous difference. –grace
