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Library receives grant The MUSC Waring Historical Library was awarded a $75,632 grant by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the funding branch of the National Archives, for a Preserving and Accessing Medical History Collections project.   The grant money will fund a project archivist to review, rehouse and recatalog 94 manuscript collections consisting of more than 320 cubic feet of records which document the history of the health professions at MUSC and in South Carolina.   The library serves MUSC and the state as the repository for rare books, journals, artifacts and manuscript materials that document South Carolina's health professions.   The library is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for research and tours. For information, visit http://waring.library.musc.edu.     Friday, June 23, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.