You may
remember that just the other week we reported on Reference
Room Closing -- Oregon State Library. We just recently read of another library which
is down-sizing its genealogy collection -- Library removes genealogy, history room.
So it is
with the Garland County Arkansas
Though the materials previously in the library will be moved to local societies and continue to be available to the public (via The Melting Pot Genealogical Society and the Garland County Historical Society), they will now be less centralized and I was
surprised to read that the holdings included “Ledgers bearing original minutes
from Hot Springs’ earliest city council meetings in the 1870s and 80s ...” These
sound like neat records.
Though
we understand that need (or lack of utility) drives many of the decisions to
close facilities, it is still painful to read about. It also, indirectly, perpetuates the “myth”
that everything needed to trace one’s origins can be done “remotely through
online databases.” We all know that is
NOT true!
And,
as I read about this, I also learned that the History and Genealogy Reading Room (Connecticut State
Library) re-opened yesterday after undergoing renovations! That at least was a dose of needed “good”
news.
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