In this guest post, Jonathan Walton, a Summer 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow, describes the process behind creating his project, "Diversity and Multiculturalism: The Interconnected Sounds of America."
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.
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 …
We are pleased to announce that Erika Gault has joined the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) as a program specialist. We interviewed Erika about her role in CCDI, her experience in digital ethnography and Black Cultural Studies, and the opportunities she sees with digital initiatives at the Library. CCDI is supported by a generous grant …
We are pleased to announce that Olivia Dorsey has joined the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) as a program specialist. Olivia comes to CCDI from the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative at the Library. We interviewed Olivia about her role in CCDI, her experience in digital history and genealogy, and the opportunities …