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In This Issue
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Index
Relaunching the Statewide Delivery Service
The CT State Library Awards Historic Documents Preservation
Grants to 154 Municipalities
Rebranding Statewide
Ten Public Libraries Receive Construction Grants
Walking Tour of Coltsville; Staff Development Day 2015
Sheet Music at the
CT State Library
Connecticut Invites You
New and Noteworthy
Third Thursday Schedule
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Ten Public Libraries Receive Construction Grants
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he State Library Board, at their November 23, 2015 meeting, awarded library construction grants to ten public libraries. The grants awarded totaled $4,774,398. See More
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Rebranding
Statewide Library Services
The State
Library is rebranding its services so that Connecticut library users of all types will come to understand that many of the vital library services they receive come from the State Library. Each of the statewide services' new branded names carries a logo that is graphically related to that of the State Library itself.
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The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project (CDNP) has contributed thousands of pages of 19th and early 20th century Connecticut newspaper pages to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America.Start searching Chronicling America now at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ |
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From the State Librarian, Kendall F. Wiggin
Relaunching the Statewide Delivery Service
Seeing challenges as opportunities may seem like a cliché, but recently the State Library faced a challenge that did in fact open up an opportunity for us to rethink how we provide a very important service at a time of diminishing resources.
CCAR (now deliverIT CT) began in the 1970s and has become the backbone of resource sharing among public and academic libraries in Connecticut with approximately 15,000 items delivered every day. See More
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The CT State Library Awards Historic Documents Preservation to
Grants to 154 Municipalities
The Connecticut State Library has awarded FY 2016 grants totaling $516,500 to 154 municipalities through the Historic Documents Preservation Program. This program provides funding for projects that improve local government records preservation, management, and access. Established in 2001, the program has funded over two thousand records projects and has distributed over $14 million in grants to municipalities to date.With these grants, municipalities are preserving historical town records, scanning records to provide for electronic public access, microfilming records to ensure long term records security, purchasing records storage equipment, software and hardware, and improving records organization and management. By improving records management, municipalities are increasing efficiencies, lowering costs, enhancing public service, and helping to ensure the long term preservation of essential public records.
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Sheet Music at the CT State Library
A family gathered around a piano in a Victorian parlor singing a sentimental song together - a man humming the latest popular tune on his walk to the factory - a band playing a bold march as ranks of young men in Union blue or army khaki march to points South or far across the ocean - the same scene some time later with victory banners stretched across the streets and missing faces among the returning ranks - music has always been a universal presence in the lives of people, reflecting exultation, tragedy, quieter sentiments, and brash self promotion; carrying the sentiments and sins of an age.
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A Walking Tour of Coltsville Staff development Day :2015
In commemoration of the National Park Services' 100th Anniversary in 2016 and the authorization of the Colt National Historical Park in Hartford, CT, this is an overview of a tour taken by State Library staff on our Staff Development Day, November 17, 2015. The President of the United States authorized the creation of Coltsville National Historical Park In December of 2014. The conditions to be met for the establishment of the park include the creation of a Visitor Center, the management and preservation of the public property by the City of Hartford, and inclusion of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Caldwell Colt Parish House, and other privately held property as part of the Coltsville National Park.
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Connecticut Invites You
Connecticut Invites You includes the remarks of well known people who describe why they love living in Connecticut and Governor Wilbur Cross invites you "to share the pleasure of living in our midst." This little book was published sometime in the 1930s by the State Publicity Commission.
Find it on the shelf or online http://www.consuls.org:80/record=b1723941~S1
Here is information about some of the celebrities who contributed a statement to go with the photographs that illustrate the book.
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