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collections   or  other preservation  activities"   (See  Grants  Action News, November  1998,   12(11), p. 1.     Of note,  $500,000 had been set aside  for that purpose  with grants  ranging  from  $1,500  to  $25,000. Only three months  later,  the New York State Education Department, Archives  and Records  Administration  announced that  it was "accepting  applications   for projects  that  identify,   survey  and  plan for the  systematic  collection  of records  relating  to underdocumented   subjects,   institutions   or   activities,   and   projects   to arrange  and  describe  historical   records   already  in  repositories"   (See Grants Action News, February  1999,  13(2) p.l.    The funding set aside this time was  $100,000 with grants ranging  form $1,000 to $25,000.
Recommendation
The  Task  Force  recommends  that  Maryland  immediately  target funding   for the  identification  and maintenance  of library  and archival  resources  relevant to the history and legacy  of slavery. The  commission  will   seek  support  through  pivotal   foundations, libraries,   archives,   preservations   organizations,   and   museums   to produce  guides  and maintain  on-line  data bases  of relevant holdings, especially   of those  not  appropriately   catalogued   or  documented.