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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is an interview with American Folklife Center staff who are instrumental in the preservation of Community Collections Grant project collections, as part of the wider Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants, digital collections, digital futures
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
American Folklife Center's (AFC) Nancy Groce announces a new AFC archival collection, the Warp and Weft of Yap’s Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia, as supported through the AFC's Community Collections Grant program of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants, digital collections, library resources
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Folklife Specialist Meg Nicholas interviews Alex Lumelsky, COO and Creative Director for the Chaldean News, about the 2024 Community Collections Grant (CCG) Project, Chaldeans: Portrait of an Evolving Community. The American Folklife Center CCG program is part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is an interview with 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant recipient Dr. Ashley Minner Jones on her project, Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
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: 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: Michelle Stefano
This post is announcing the 2024 recipients of the American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.
Posted in: Community Collections grants
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is an interview with Tameshia Rudd-Ridge and Jourdan Brunson of the Dallas, Texas Community Collections Grant project, If Tenth Street Could Talk, as part of the Library's Of the People blog series featuring awardees of the American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grant program.
Posted in: Community Collections grants, research
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post features an interview with Professor Lola Quan Bautista, who is leading the 2023 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Celebrating CHamoru Nobenas, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Posted in: Community Collections grants, research