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Beverly Archive Project Minutes March 5, 2009 The Beverly Archives Project (BAP) held its regular meeting at 7 PM at the Beverly Public Library, chaired by John Thomson. Present were:
1. Oral History Professor Kilburn’s talk was interesting and informative. He was actively involved in an oral history program documenting Czechoslovakian history under communism. He is actively involved with Endicott’s Center for Oral History and hopes it becomes a community resource for such things as training for the conducting of interviews and the analysis & preservation of collections relating to events of historical significance. He brought with him various recording devices for our perusal. He also left written guides to understand better what oral history is and how to process it. 2. Treasurer’s Report - As of February, our present balance is $1,273.60 . . 3. Beverly City Hall Archives Volunteer Project In lieu of a February BAP meeting at the Library on January 29th, BAP members had a tour of the Beverly City Hall Archives that are in the basement. John Thomson and Margaret Alfonso have already started working on this project. The Clerk’s office has set us up with a table, a computer terminal, and a log to document when BAP was working in the basement and what was done. A major job will be to properly label boxes that are mislabeled. For example, John and Margaret found a box with a 1938 label --- but inside the box were papers dated in the 1700’s instead. What BAP hopes to do is to slip papers into acid-free envelopes, put in a properly labeled archive box, and develop an inventory. All BAP members are invited to join the project. 4. Gift From Our Treasury --- It was unanimously agreed that BAP make a $300 donation to the City for archival supplies 5. Guests --- Todd Wemmer will attend our April meeting. He will talk about equipment used in oral history. 6. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 2nd . Respectfully Submitted, Elaine G. Israelsohn |
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