The project helps put The Landing back on a professional collections management footing after a disastrous fire several years ago that destroyed all of their inventory information.
The grant allowed them to start making an inventory of the twenty-five buildings that make up The Landing including recording the condition and location of the collection.
The purpose of the grant was to collect prepatory information and purchase necessary equipment to carry out a microfilming project, to preserve and make accessible records of individual townships within Mower County from the earliest date possible through 2008. To complete this work, the Project Director met with members of the Minnesota Historical Society staff and a microfilming agent to learn about the microfilming and record preparation process. Three meetings were scheduled to go through the process of preparing records for microfilming. The first meeting was with S
