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Between September 2001 and May 2003 the New Hampshire Local Records Education Project provided archival and records management education to town clerks, public librarians, historical society members, and others interested in the preservation of and access to historical records. Dartmouth College archivists conducted a series of two all-day workshops at ten New Hampshire locations: Berlin, Concord, Conway, Hanover, Keene, Littleton, Manchester, Nashua, Plymouth, and Portsmouth, and selected 40-60 organizations represented at the workshops for consulting services, including on-site preservation and access assessments.
The New Hampshire Local Records Education Project was concerned about records and records keepers at the community level. The Project is founded upon the well-documented need for archival education in New Hampshire and the belief that a collaborative approach is the best way to meet this need. The training was intended to ensure that communities have skilled handling of their public documents and historical records. This project created a working network of community archivists throughout the state.
Project collaborators were the New Hampshire Historical Records Advisory Board, New Hampshire Historical Society, New Hampshire City and Town Clerks Association, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire State Library, Vital Records Improvement Fund Advisory Committee, New Hampshire Archives Group, Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College.
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