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Council donates historical documents to NMI Archives
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Posted on Feb 01 2006
The holdings of the CNMI Archives have grown considerably thanks to a recent donation of historical documents by the Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities.
According to the council’s executive director Paz C. Younis, the donation included two substantial documents collections.
The first collection comprises roughly 12,000 pages of documents relating to the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia covering the period 1945 to 2001. These materials originally were identified and copied at the libraries of the 10 post-World War II U.S. Presidents—from Truman to Clinton—under a council-supported Community Grant project directed by noted lawyer and historian Howard Willens.
The second collection consists of 27 hardbound volumes containing approximately 11,000 pages of German language materials relating to the Mariana Islands collected at various repositories in Germany by Dr. Dirk HR Spennemann. This set includes an annotated bibliography that presents an English language abstract for each entry.
Like the Presidential Libraries materials, the German document collection project also was supported by a Council Community Grant awarded to the Division of Historic Preservation in 2001.
Younis noted that both collections are also available in digital form. The Presidential Libraries materials are contained on a fully searchable two CD set that is supplemented by an explanatory booklet. The German materials may be accessed online at http://marshall.csu.edu.au.
Those interested in learning more about these collections are invited to contact Council staff at 235-4785. (PR)
