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Posted by: Isabel Brador
Friends of Tijeras Pueblo (FTP) is one of CCDI’s 2024 Libraries, Archives and Museum Awardees. The team began their project in December 2023 and will be presenting about their work at CCDI’s upcoming Summer Fuse 2024 event in Washington, D.C. FTP is receiving $61,366.50 for their project, “The Ancestral Tiwa World Connected to the Present: Tijeras …
Posted in: CCDI, Community Collections grants
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The Library welcomed 40 undergraduates, graduates and recent graduates to its Junior Fellows program on Monday, May 20. Twenty interns in the 2024 class will work on-site, while the other 20 will connect to the Library remotely. They all came together for the first time during an upbeat and informative orientation session, during which on-site …
Posted in: internships
Posted by: Isabel Brador
The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) team interviewed Angelo State University (ASU), one of CCDI's 2024 Higher Education recipients. This post offers details about their project, "All History is Local: Celebrating the People of West Texas."
Posted in: CCDI, Connecting Communities Digital Initiative, digital collections, research
Posted by: Isabel Brador
The Hoboken Public Library (HPL) is one of CCDI’s 2024 Libraries, Archives and Museum Awardees. The team began their project in December 2023 and will be presenting about their work at CCDI’s upcoming Summer Fuse 2024 event in Washington, D.C. HPL is receiving $69,449.39 for their project, “The Puerto Rican Experience in Hoboken and America,” which explores …
Posted in: CCDI, Connecting Communities Digital Initiative
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is a guest post by Aarti Mehta-Kroll, co-leader of the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Documenting Goombay and Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove. This post is part of the Library of Congress Of the People blog series featuring awardees of the American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grants program.
Posted in: Community Collections grants, research
Posted by: Isabel Brador
The recording of the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative’s 2023 Awardee Project Celebration is now available online! CCDI’s Higher Education and Libraries, Archives and Museums awardees wowed audiences with their projects and shared their experiences using and re-mixing the Library’s digital collection collections. Keep reading below for a brief synopsis of each project. University of …
Posted in: CCDI, Connecting Communities Digital Initiative, digital futures, events, Uncategorized