Tammie Sinclair, an archivist at El Progreso Public Library, goes through boxes of donated artwork and records in the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde.On a recent morning in Uvalde, Tammie Sinclair stood in the lobby of the library where she started working in January, having just enrolled her young daughter for the last three days of the school year.
But only after Sinclair has carefully documented, digitized and stored every single item according to archival standards in order to preserve the community and national response to the tragedy. The donations of money — about $76,000, so far — will be used to create an endowment fund for the children’s wing of the library.
“We’re going to collect the response around a tragedy to start with, with the idea that it will expand to the history of Uvalde and surrounding counties as well,” Sinclair said. But in a back workroom of the library, the items began to stack up. A staffer was put in charge of accepting and organizing the growing collection.
She had the credentials to do the job, funded by the NEH grant for one year, Morgan said. “Better almost than that, she has long connections in the community … and she wanted to come back.” At age 74, Morgan is ready to step back, though not out. At the end of the one-year grant period, he plans to move into a development and fundraising role at the library, leaving the director job to Sinclair. For now, Sinclair is working from a makeshift office in the Doughty local history room of the library, her desk shrouded by chrome bookshelves lined with archival-quality boxes and bags.
A sapling from Oklahoma City sits on what is known as “the magic window sill” a place where plants can thrive.When completed, the collection will be searchable by keywords and stored in the library’s extensive archival space overseen by Virginia Wood Davis, the 90-year-old volunteer for whom the archives are named.
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