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NEARA's Meggers Library and Archives offers a unique opportunity for members to research a wide array of subjects related to antiquity across the globe, focusing on lithic structures and cultures of northeastern US and eastern Canada. In addition to the non-circulating volumes of our Special Collection, several thousand circulating volumes are available for loan to members.
We have a broad collection of titles relating to ethnology, early seafaring, Native American topics, landscape studies, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, petroglyphs, comparative religion, history, megaliths, mythology, and ancient civilizations.
View our collection online at: NEARA Library. You can also browse our complete collection online at: NEARA Library catalog.
Try searching particular Library of Congress call letter + number categories. Popular categories for NEARA are:
You can reserve books now for pick-up at the next conference, or we can arrange for some other way to get the books to you. But note that some of the books in our collection are non-circulating, even though they may currently be listed as "Available".
The move to the space in Nashua means we are deaccessioning some duplicate and extraneous titles. These books and videos will be offered for sale to members online and at conferences. To see the collection of books that we are deaccessioning, look at the list of NEARA Library books for sale. This list will be updated occasionally, so come back to see what new books have been added to it. Look for the tag "sell" -- although some books might have already been sold but mistakenly still remain on this list. You can reserve books now for purchase at the next conference, or we can arrange for some other way to get the books to you.
NEARA's Archives include many documents of the organization, including:
Our former librarian Anne Wirkkala did an incredible job over the decades in accumulating information for NEARA members. Besides maintaining and augmenting the huge collection of books, she also developed and maintained NEARA's archives of organization records, site information, research materials, and general subject files.
We are in the midst of digitizing the NEARA Archives. If you are a member of NEARA you can see photos and some of the documents at SiteDB.org. See how sites and people(!) looked like back in the 1960's - 1980's.
Due to the sensitive nature of many of the documents, such as the Site Reports, we have limited access to them. Tell us what research you want to do. If we do not know you well, it would help to get the support of a member of the Board of Directors, such as a Chapter Coordinator.
If you are a member of NEARA you can read all of the Journals and Transits that NEARA has ever published, at SiteDB.org.
Also available are Epigraphic Society publications and many of the Early Sites Research Society publications. For an introduction to the site, please read Introduction. Access policies are at Archives Policies.
All of the Site Files in the Archives, including all site reports, have been digitized and are available on SiteDB.org. The SiteDB database has been augmented with much newer information, i.e. not in paper form in the Archives.
We are no longer accepting paper reports, but we have not yet implemented online site report forms. Please submit site reports to the sites@neara.org. We can set up a Google Shared Drive so that you can easily upload site reports for us to download to the SiteDB. Information about how the SiteDB is organized is at SiteDB Folder Structure
Many NEARA researchers have donated their notes, correspondence, reports, articles, photos, and other items to the Archives. We have started digitizing them, but as you can see at SiteDB People, we have only done the first few and the last few letters of the alphabet.
If you want to preserve your research for current and future generations, contact us at librarian@neara.org.
Before the internet became the ultimate repository, Anne Wirkkala started a collection of articles and photos about a wide range of subjects of interest to NEARA. This collection has occupied 45 bankers boxes of hanging files. Because so much (but not all) of this material is available on the internet or in publications, we have discarded many of the items that we believe are reliably accessible on the web. In addition, we have removed duplicates and articles that not really pertinent to NEARA. This has caused a great reduction in the volume taken by the Subject Files, which can now fit easily into two filing cabinets.
However, we have not had the opportunity to digitize the remaining Subject Files. But you can see most of what remains in a spreadsheet: Archives Subject Files index. Note how many of the rows are marked "(internet only)" -- those files are no longer physically in our Archives but can be read online at some repository such as archive.org or SiteDB.
Here's one thing we discovered in the "Subject Files": William Sutherland ca. 1725 manuscript.
The NEARA library is located at 142 Main St., Nashua New Hampshire, in room 215 of the Landmark Building. View NEARA on Google Maps.
Contact the NEARA Librarian to schedule a visit. Metered parking is available on the street or in a parking garage on the next block west of Main St. Numerous dining options are available downtown.
Do you love books about history and archaeology and anthropology?
Do you live near Nashua, New Hampshire?
Give yourself access to thousands of fascinating books by joining NEARA and volunteering at the library.
Contact us at librarian@neara.org.
You can donate collections of books to NEARA -- contact the Librarian librarian@neara.org. We have limited space, so please only donate good books in good condition.