MARLBORO, Vt. (AP) - Marlboro College, which is merging with Emerson College in Boston and closing its Vermont campus, is sending its archives and special collections to the University of Vermont in Burlington.
The announcement by Marlboro says the items now held in Marlboro’s Rice-Aron Library will remain open to the public for use at UVM as part of the agreement.
“At a time when small colleges in Vermont - and indeed across the country - are struggling to exist, we can’t underestimate the importance of protecting our invaluable archives in perpetuity,” Marlboro College Kevin Quigley said in a statement.
Among the items headed to UVM include the college’s Kipling Collection, which includes documents, publications, and photographs relating to the years British author Rudyard Kipling spent in southeastern Vermont in the 1890s.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports one of the most valuable parts of the collection is more than 2,500 Plans of Concentration submitted by graduating students and spanning from the early 1950s to present day.
Starting this fall, most Marlboro students and faculty will be moving to Emerson College. Marlboro announced last month that it had reached a deal to sell it’s 500-acre campus and all the buildings in the Vermont town of the same name.
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