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SHREWSBURY PARISH, KENT COUNTY

Index to Vestry Register, 1687-1909, typed cards
ST. MARY'S WHITECHAPEL PARISH, CAROLINE COUNTY

Index to Register, 1871-1951, typed cards
TRINITY PARISH, CECIL COUNTY

Index to Register, 1835-1903, typed cards
GREAT CHOPTANK PARISH, DORCHESTER COUNTY

Index to Register, 1884-1924, typed cards
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ANNAPOLIS

Index to Register, 1892-1916, typed cards

REPAIR AND BINDING

As I have stated elsewhere in this report (Staff Notes) our binder,
Patricia Goldsborough, resigned as of April 5, 1966 after working in
the bindery for six years. Unfortunately, it is impossible to employ
experienced binders, because they are rare, and those that do practice
the art confine their work to fine binding. Miss Goldsborough had
learned the craft while working for us and we feel her loss sorely for
this reason. However, Beatrice Hiltabidle who had learned binding by
watching the binders while she was engaged in her primary duties of
laminating, stayed on until the last day of the fiscal year, at my request,
to indoctrinate our new workers. We are having Mrs. Lilley and Mr.
Thompson practice both skills so that we shall not be caught short again.

In spite of the difficulties experienced during the year, the repair
room approached its normal production. There were seventy-four large
manuscripts volumes bound and 24,541 pages laminated.

PHOTODUPLICATION

There was an increase of about fifty per cent in receipts for
photographic services which we offered to customers of the Hall of
Records. While most of our work is done by photostatic reproduction,
it is interesting to note that the number of materials duplicated by
projection prints doubled. This means that our microfilm collection
of relatively late records is beginning to be used more, as I was sure
it would be once it became known to the general public. The work of
the photographic laboratory is primarily that of one employee, the other
photographer is almost constantly in the field. For an account of his
work during the year, one must look through the list of Archival
Acquisitions.