Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support graduate student internships in community-based archives

Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) Internship & Resource Development Project

to support a series of forums that would develop strategic frameworks to advance museum libraries in the 21st century

Light at the Museum Library: Global Conversations on Revolutionizing Museum Libraries and Archives in the 21st Century

to support educational programming, improvements in archival infrastructure, and the renovation of the Blue Bird Inn

Reimagining The Blue Bird Inn

to support Black Bottom Archives' work on the Sankofa Research Project in Detroit

Sankofa Community Research Project Proposal: Black Bottom x I-375

to support the development and distribution of archiving guidance for human rights defenders and frontline communities in the United States

WITNESS Archiving Guide

to support the organization of archival materials relating to the Bench by the Road Project and other necessary planning for a digital archive in collaboration with Princeton University Library

Archives of the Bench by the Road Project

to support the development of a mechanism, called a “Data Lifeboat,” to preserve photograph collections hosted by Flickr

Building a “Data Lifeboat” for Flickr

to support a digitization pilot project focused on the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection

Digitizing and Providing Digital Access to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection for Exhibitions and Programming at the Black Panther Party Museum

to support the Queens Memory Project and Queens Name Explorer

Expanding and Diversifying Queens Public Library’s Digital Archives

to support a research project on archiving algorithms and the social data related to them

Algorithmic Archive Project

to support a national grantmaking competition for digitization of materials that deepen public understanding of people and communities that have been historically underrepresented

Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices

to support the New Press in countering book bans through its new "Forbidden Books Series"

Forbidden Books Fund

to support relocation planning for the Society's physical archive, upgrades to its digital collection infrastructure, and planning for a rebranding project

Planning for the GLBT Historical Society's Future

to support an assessment of publishing models for scholarly monographs in Ebook format

Research Study on Ebook Publishing Models

General Operating Support

to support the activities of the memory lab

Support for Public Library Memory Labs

to support the activities of the memory lab 

to support the expansion of, and public access to, the archives of the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium

Western PA Disability History and Action Consortium

to support training and services for the preservation of community audiovisual collections in the Mid-Atlantic region

Interface: Expanding Personal and Community Archiving in the US Mid-Atlantic

to support the digitization of over 2,000 literary audiovisual recordings held by the Woodberry Poetry Room and to explore new approaches to facilitating their discovery, access, and use

Library of Voices Preservation & Access Initiative

Library Support Network

Mukurtu Shared: Phase III

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

to support planning for the Corporation for Public Interest Technology, with support from the Public Interest Technology Network

Planning for the Corporation for Public Interest Technology

to support planning, expansion, and use of the organization's current and future archives

Future Memory: Literary Archives

to support planning for responsible information workforce development in the humanities

Mobilize, Articulate, Connect, Sustain: MACS-imizing Responsible Information Work in the Humanities

to support the Research Institute for Public Libraries in its curriculum expansion for data skills training and in planning for long-term sustainability

Research Institute for Public Libraries

to support the transition of the Social Networks and Archival Context project to a membership-based program

Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC): Phase IV

to support the activities of the memory lab for the Karuk Tribe

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Karuk Tribe

to support a final phase of Community Webs, a cohort-based professional training program in web archiving for public libraries

Community Webs Sustainability

to support accessibility of digital educational resources for students with disabilities

FRAME: Phase III

to support We Here LLC's design and implementation of professional development, peer mentoring, and continuing education opportunities for BIPOC librarians, archivists, and curators

We Here: Dream-Shaping Our Community

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 