Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of Indigenous immigrant communities in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, California

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Stories in Westlake

to support an Architecting Sustainable Futures follow-up convening or ASF@5 for community-based archives in 2023

ASF@5 Convening for Community-based Archives

to support a pilot for archival training that centers Indigenous needs and perspectives

Indigenizing Archival Training: Piloting a Certificate Program 

to support the 2023 Tribal College Librarians Institute

Tribal College Librarians Institute

to support demonstration projects to advance the argument that text and data mining of content constitute applications of fair use under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use

to support the development of a web archives network model, focused initially on Black collecting organizations

Black Web Archives Collective

to support the advancement of Indigenous data sovereignty through community-based participatory archival partnerships with Tribal communities in Arizona

Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping 

to support the development of a community-driven archive and resource collection for Indigenous research, teaching, and learning

Haudenosaunee Archive and Resource Collection - Phase II

to support efforts to shore up the association's digital infrastructure and to advance intellectual freedom and access to information, diversity fellowship programming, and a COVID-19 relief regranting program

Let Our Legacy Be Justice - Phase II

to support the design of new networked services for expanding legal access to in-copyright digitized books and ebooks that other library systems could adopt

Project LEND: Investigating the Future of Digital Book Access

to support the expansion of library-based services and programs for those reentering society post-incarceration

Reentry Services

to support demonstration projects to advance the argument that text and data mining of content constitute applications of fair use under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 

to support the further development of an international research initiative developing new approaches to understanding the global history of the book

Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book

to support the creation of a collection of backlist open-access ebooks in gender and sexuality studies

Open Access Ebook Infrastructure Building Project

to support the exploration and documentation of use cases for potential integration of three major open-source publishing platforms

Connecting Open Source Publishing Services via Standardized Methods of Data Interchange

to support a convening of the Community Archives Collaborative

Convening Support for Community-Based Archives Collaborative 

to support listening sessions with tribal communities in Washington State to better understand their library and technology needs for future pilot projects

Centering Washington Tribal Libraries 

to support sustainability planning for a national software preservation program

EaaSI (Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure): Phase III

to support an integrative, interdisciplinary, and reparative approach to analyzing the role that data, computation, and archives play in Black life

Beyond Black Data: Computational Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory for Black Digital Humanities - Phase II

to support a multimodal narrative approach to documenting the reconnection of Zuni and Hopi peoples with artifacts described in archeological databases and housed in national museums

Engaging Native American Communities in Archeological Study: Phase II

to support the further development of a trust for the stewardship of usage data about open-access monographs

Open Access eBook Usage Data Trust - Data Exchange

to support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for Islamicate digital humanities

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts: Phase II

to support the development of the Radical Librarianship Institute and an accompanying community press

Radical Librarianship Institute

to support the development of a database of bibliographic information about African American and Black diasporic authors and a network of scholars researching African American literature

The Black Bibliography Project - Phase II

to support an expansive interdisciplinary approach to critical data studies to address issues such as misinformation, disinformation, and data literacy

The Data Fluencies Project

to support the development of new models for advancing racial justice in the archival field

The Digital Equity Project

to support the further development of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network

The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network

to support the development of an analytics service for a data trust of open-access e-book usage data

Open Access E-book Usage Data Trust - Data Analytics 

to support community and collections growth for the Digital Library of the Caribbean

Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean

to support planning for a controlled digital lending effort with the University of California Libraries digitized library collections

Future of Ebook Access at the University of California

to support a collaboration between archivists and ethnic studies faculty for integrating community archives materials in undergraduate curricula

Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History 

to support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support the creation of data sets derived from legal corpora based on Jim Crow laws for analysis and teaching

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance 

to continue support for the development of the Sourcery tool for peer-to-peer sharing of scanned-on-demand archival materials

Sourcery: Phase II          

to support an additional round of applications for, and an assessment of, a fellowship program in digital publication

NEH-Mellon Fellowships in Digital Publication

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" 