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Archive: February 2021 (4 Posts)

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Digital Experimentation and the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative

Posted by: Laurie Allen

The Library's Innovator in Residence Program, has helped the Library re-imagine creative engagement with our collections through technological innovation. Like the Innovator in Residence program, the Artist/Scholars in Residence for the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative will provide opportunities for intensive time to re-imagine the ways that technology and Library materials can be used to connect with Americans.

A woman records a young man speaking as they sit together at a table

Some Context for the Community Collections Fellowship Program

Posted by: John Fenn

As noted in a recent post on this blog, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will be launching a Community Collections Fellowship program under the Library’s “Of the People” initiative funded with support from the Mellon Foundation. This program will enable people to conduct fieldwork documenting the cultural activities and experiences that …