06 October 2010

To the Anonymous Donor ...

who left the Battery Creek High School annuals for 1975, 1979 and 1980 at the Beaufort Branch Reference Desk for me to pick up:

Dear Sir:

Thank you.

The only way that the Beaufort District Collection gets school annuals is through donations. As part of the relocation process, we added limited school annual holdings to the library's catalog in order that a person can readily see whether or not the BDC has the volume that he/she is hoping to see. It is particularly good to get pristine copies of annuals from former teachers at the schools such as those you left for us. (Student ones often are covered in personal messages written in all sorts of inks and markers that will eventually eat through the paper at some point in the future.) Rest assured that these Creek volumes will be treasured and held in trust for current and future residents and visitors of Beaufort County.

Go to the SC LENDS catalog, search on "Battery Creek annuals," and you'll see that we've added your donations to our holdings.

Thank you so much for dropping the volumes off at the Beaufort County Library.

Sincerely,
Grace Morris Cordial,
Beaufort District Collection Manager,
Historical Resources Coordinator
Beaufort County Library


As I mentioned in the entry of 30 May, we often rely upon benefaction to add to our holdings of local historical materials. To see other entries about donated items and the types of materials in which we are most interested in getting "first refusal" granted to the BDC, search in this blog for "donations and gifts."

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