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Memory Lab NetworkThe Memory Lab Network was created to help individuals and communities across the United States to preserve their personal histories and recorded memories for the future. Through an application process, 16 public libraries were identified as Memory Lab Network partners. Network partners receive training, mentoring, and financial support to create their own Memory Labs.July 2017-March 2023DC Public LibraryIMLSsiobhan.hagan@dc.govmemorylabnetwork.org
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Roadmap for Participatory Archiving (RoPA)RoPA, the Roadmap for Participatory Archiving, guides libraries and cultural organizations through the process of collaborating with community members to plan engaging and inclusive participatory archiving events and to create digital collections.
October 2018-September 2020UMass BostonIMLSSarah.Collins@umb.eduhttps://ropa.umb.edu/
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Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) Training of Trainers Toolkit (TOT)Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with the generous support of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), this project aims to produce a series of regional workshops which will address the problem of obsolescence in audiovisual collections. The purpose of the TOT toolkit website is to promote regional networks, develop a TOT curriculum, and facilitate skill sharing for community archiving workshops everywhere.June 2018-May 2020AMIAIMLScommunityarchivingworkshop@gmail.comhttps://tot.communityarchiving.org/
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Community Archives LabThe Community Archives Lab at UCLA explores the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities, with a particular emphasis on understanding their affective, political, and artistic impact. (Projects: Assessing the Use of Community Archives; The UCLA/Community Archives Internship Project)OngoingUCLAIMLS; Andrew W. Mellon Foundationcaswell at gseis.ucla.eduhttps://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/
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Digitization for Everybody (Dig4e)Dig4E is a set of online modules where you can learn about and test your knowledge of archival quality digitization. The self-directed modules focus on existing and emerging standards and best practices for creating digital surrogates of photographic materials, audio recordings, and videotapes. October 2018-August 2020University of MichiganAndrew W. Mellon Foundation
pconway@umich.edu
https://www.dig4e.com/
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Community Driven ArchivesThe Community-Driven Archives project at the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, partnered with historically underrepresented history keepers in telling, sharing, and preserving their stories. Through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community-Driven Archives Team (CDAT) built and sustained meaningful partnerships with history keepers throughout the American South. Of particular note is the resources created, including the mobile “Archivist in a Backpack” and “Oral Historian in a Backpack” kits2017-2021UNC Wilson Library Soouther Historical CollectionAndrew W. Mellon FoundationNakasone, Sonoe <sonoe@email.unc.edu>https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/community-driven-archives/
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StoryCorps DIYa set of multimedia courses to teach organizations how to build a sustainable storytelling program.OngoingStoryCorpsIMLSTBDhttps://diy.storycorps.org/about/
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Community Based Preservation Education and Training ProgramThe program addresses both the urgency of preserving higher volumes of audiovisual content, and for broadening the field of preservationists to make it more diverse and inclusive by offering hands-on trainings for beginner to intermediate practitioners.2022BAVC MediaNEH morganmorel@bavc.orghttps://bavc.org/
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Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries, Community Memory focusAccelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries (APP) was a special initiative of the IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program. The goal of this initiative was to support projects that strengthen the ability of small and/or rural libraries and archives to serve their communities and to build grantee capacity through participation in a community of practice. IMLS invited applications that focused on the following topics: transforming school library practice; community memory; digital inclusion. WiLS team members Emily Pfotenhauer and Vicki Tobias will mentor and support this cohort as they take on oral history initiatives, community digitization events, and other projects to document and share their unique local stories.2018-2022IMLS/WiLSIMLSTBDhttps://www.wils.org/blog/the-first-meeting-of-the-imls-app-community-memory-cohort/
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Project STANDA radical grassroots archival consortia focusing on archiving the collections of student activism in marginilized communities. Their Archiving Student Activism Toolkit is a resource that seeks to compile information on documenting, collecting, and providing access to student activism collections in archives.NAProject STANDNAhttps://standarchives.com/https://standarchives.com
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Documenting the NowDocumenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content.NADocumenting the NowMellonhttps://www.docnow.io/https://www.docnow.io/
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DPOE-NThey support digital preservation education and outreach in the nation’s libraries, archives and museums. They offer funding or professional development support to cultural heritage professionals, such as librarians, archivists and museum professionals, in the area of digital preservation. They also offer funding for emergency hardware support to small archives, libraries and museumsNAPratt and NYUMellondpoe-n@pratt.edu https://www.dpoe.network/
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The Virtual Footlocker ProjectDeveloping an open-source, cross-system platform for capturing and preserving the personal communication and documentary record of the modern soldier.NAThe School of Library & Information Science at Louisiana State UniversityIMLShttps://www.virtualfootlocker.com/contacthttps://www.virtualfootlocker.com/
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The Community Curation ProgramBy bringing the Museum's digitization services to diverse communities across the country and creating a unique online platform, the program supports the preservation and sharing of community history and culture.
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