Link to August 26 Green Bay Post-Gazette article, "History detective's work space speaks volumes".Excerpt: Anybody have a pristine copy of the 1875 wall map of Brown County that shows ownership?
It's high on the wish list of Mary Jane Herber, whose work space is Brown County Central Library's Local History and Genealogical Department.
"There are things that still every once in a while will walk in," says Herber. "And you never know what it's going to (be) coming in. And you never know when it's going to come in. And you never know who's going to bring it. Or how it's going to get here. But there are still things out there. There always are."
The department's constantly growing collection tops 10,000 volumes.
"That's the last time I counted, and I don't have time to count, so we're probably well past that now," she says.
Herber has been in the department since the week after the library opened in January 1974.
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