CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) Tennessee Secretary of State, Tre Hargett was in Clarksville Thursday to present checks for grant funding to the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library and the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center.
The library received $4,474.00 which is the state’s share of the matching Technology Grant awarded to the library. The grant funds will be used for the purchase of replacement staff computers and monitors as well as new software to allow wireless printing.
Library Director, Martha Hendricks, talked about the grant and how it will benefit the library. “This is I think the fifth year in a row we have received a technology grant from the state. We have over 150 computers in the library and we’re constantly having to replace and upgrade,” said Hendricks.
Hendricks was especially excited about the wireless printing system. Hendricks said anyone in the library that brings in their laptop or has the capability of connecting to wireless should be able to print instead of just having to do their work and not be able to print.
Hargett then moved to the Customs House Museum to present amatching Archives and Development Grant for $3,000. Jim Zimmer, Executive Director of Customs House, said the grant will be used to conserve one of the most important documents in the museum’s collection.
“It is a diary by Serepta Jordan of Clarksville that covers the Civil War days. It’s something that came into our collection that was found in a barn where it had been stored for quite some time. There’s a program going on now to transcribe the diary,” said Zimmer.
Zimmer added that the funding from the grant will help the museum to stabilize it so it will be around for many generations to come. Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan joined the presentations at both locations and State Representative Joe Pitts stopped by the presentation at the library.