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Local News BCCC preserving Eastern N.C. history Staff Reports Dozens of old photographs and previously unpublished historical records will be available to the public via the Internet this spring, thanks to a federal grant awarded to the Beaufort County Community College Learning Resources Center, Historic Bath and the George H. and Laura E. Brown Public Library. Project organizers plan to launch the Web site with the bulk of material from Historic Bath at the time of the opening of the Bath tricentennial celebration, March 8. They hope to continue to add items to the online collection in future years. "This is really the push of the future," said Patricia Samford, director of Historic Bath. "Having information like this online available at your fingertips has made historic research less expensive, easier and available to more people." Money from the grant will be used to buy computers, scanners, digital cameras and other equipment for BCCC, Brown Library and Historic Bath to allow staff members to scan materials to be posted on the Web site and allow public access to that site, when it is developed. "The primary goal of CIRCA NC East is to unite and make available via the Internet the special collections of two libraries and a state historic site, a first for this area," said Penny Sermons, director of BCCC's Learning Resource Center. "This project will make it possible to combine reference materials into one easily accessible site creating a 'critical mass' of resources that complement each other. | |
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