Records of Vermont Birds Historic Data: Help!

From 1974 until 2004, bird sightings in Vermont were collected by birders and sent to a project called Records of Vermont Birds at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. A corps of dedicated volunteers assembled the information into a statewide summary each season that was printed and mailed to birders.  All of the original records were archived in boxes for the historical record.  The 30 years of data undoubtedly hold many conservation and scientific discoveries, but the lack of a computer database for retrieval of these data has proven to be a roadblock to examining them for years, not to mention the inability to save these records in event of a catastrophe such as fire or flood. The Vermont Institute of Natural Science has now joined the other Vermont eBird affiliates. They have provided us with all of the Records of Vermont Birds historic data to be entered into the Vermont eBird database. We need your help!