Complete Cataloging of Archival Collection
Available upon request. Contact grants@mnhs.org
Available upon request. Contact grants@mnhs.org
To hire a qualified professional to process the archival collections held by Golden Valley Historical Society.
The Golden Valley Historical Society received a grant to fully catalog their archives, which include more than 90 cubic feet of boxes filled with papers. Though the GVHS has been collecting artifacts and documents since 1974, they have no professional staff and have never conducted a full inventory of their collections up until this point.
This project included going through all of the materials in their archives, cataloging them with industry-standard archival software, and taking measures to preserve them properly, such as moving papers from plain boxes to archival-quality acid-free ones. This project is ongoing--in the future, the GVHS hopes to be able to digitize their collections so that they are even more accessible to volunteers and community members alike.