Indiana University, one of CCDI’s 2024 Higher Education awardees, is receiving $68,154.48 for their project, “Connecting Collections: Indigenous Identities in Edward Curtis and Joseph Dixon Materials.” The team began their project in December 2023 and will be presenting their work at CCDI’s upcoming Summer Fuse 2024 event in Washington, D.C. Through their project they will work …
University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) is one of CCDI’s 2024 Higher Education awardees. The team began their project in December 2023 and will be presenting at the CCDI’s upcoming Summer Fuse 2024 event in Washington, D.C. UHD is receiving $69,084.67 for their project, “Discovering Afro-Latino Heritage: A Reflective StoryMap Project to Enhance Student Belongingness and Learning.” Through …
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."
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.
Maya Cade, CCDI Scholar-in-Residence at the Library of Congress, lectures on tenderness in Black film and unveils her updated website, Black Film Archive.
The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) will hold its virtual Awardee Project Celebration event, featuring CCDI's 2023 award recipients, on Thursday, April 4th.
In the fall of 2023, Ide Amari Thompson and Madeline Toombs participated in the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA) as interns with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) team. During their 10-week remote internship, they explored how transcript data of the Library’s Mary Church Terrell Papers could enable new forms of storytelling …
Angelo State University, Trustees of Indiana University, and University of Houston-Downtown are the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Higher Education award recipients. DC Public Library, Hoboken Public Library, and Friends of Tijeras Pueblo are the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Libraries, Archives, Museums award recipients.
