The Digital POWRR Project, of which I am co-director, has received a new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Totaling $348,900, it will support the planning and presentation of five in-person professional development events, each lasting 2.5 days. These events will provide those in attendance with training in the preservation of digital materials held in library, archive, and museum collections. The program will especially seek to recruit practitioners responsible for the collection and preservation of materials pertaining to the Native American, African American, and Latinx communities. In order to facilitate participating practitioners' participation, the grant will make funds available for the reimbursement of their travel and accommodations.
Two project events will take place in suburban Chicago at Northern Illinois University's Naperville campus; two will also take place at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. One will take place at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Please see the Northern Illinois University press release for additional information about this program:
