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Library May Have Alternative to Culling Watertown's Historical Collection

Library may be able to store Arsenal Cleanup Documents on CD-ROMs.

A group seeking to save part of the historical collection at the Watertown Free Public Library will ask the Library Trustees to look at the technological options.

Parts of the collection is threatened because library officials want to make room for documents related to the clean up of the former U.S. Army facility at the Watertown Arsenal.

Supporters of the collection sent out a letter asking residents to come out to ask the trustees to keep the Arsenal cleanup documents on a CD-ROM discs rather than in a sent of three-ring binders.

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“According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, ‘We can provide the Library with a master copy of a CD ROM and a General Use CD ROM copy of the Admin Record for the GSA Property.’ They recognize that ‘a local repository’ such as the WFPL ‘may prefer to have the documents available via CD-ROM or internet, in light of potential space concerns,’” the letter reads.

The paper originals should remain in the hands of the library but supporters of the collection said the Department of Environmental Collection does not require them to be to be in the library building itself, according to the letter.

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Members of the group will speak at the Trustees Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Library.


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