Washington State University
Designed with Care: Mukurtu Provides Ethical Tools for Archiving and Preservation of Indigenous Heritage
Expanding Public Knowledge
What is possible with a more complete and accessible cultural record?
The Video Lab at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Center processes moving images recorded on aging VR2000 Quad and Sony ½” EIAJ VTRs. Photo: Stefan Ruiz for Mellon Foundation
A full and rich cultural and scholarly record is essential to understanding who we are. How we access and interact with books, archives, technology, and other artifacts is one of Mellon’s core interests as a grantmaker. By increasing equitable access to resources, and ensuring knowledge is produced as well as preserved, we can help foster a more informed and critically engaged society.
Ten Unexpected Things to Check Out at Public Libraries
Wiki Education Foundation
Look It Up: Humanities Students are Filling Wikipedia’s Content Gaps
WGBH Educational Foundation
Reel Talk: Saving America’s Public Media Matters More Than You May Know
Shorefront NFP
The Nation’s First Municipal Reparations Program, Grounded in Black History
South Asian American Digital Archive
Sharing Personal Stories from South Asian Communities
Mellon Voices
Defining Public Knowledge with Program Officer Patricia Hswe
Voice
America’s Saving Spaces
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Emily Drabinski
Associate Professor
Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
LGBTQ+ in Lexington, Kentucky
Inside the Faulkner Morgan Archive
Robert Morgan
Co-founder, Faulkner Morgan Archive
Co-founder, Faulkner Morgan Archive
“I thought, ‘If something happens to me, nobody will know any of these stories or what any of this material was about.’ ”
1882 Project Foundation
Making Chinese American Histories Part of Everyday Life
Event
Reading, Power, and Freedom
Event
America is at the Library—Not Just the Ballot Box
University of California at Los Angeles
Libraries Are Vital Community Spaces (and, They Need to Evolve)
Robert Montoya
Director, UCLA California Rare Book School and the Libraries, Justice, & Ethics Lab
Director, UCLA California Rare Book School and the Libraries, Justice, & Ethics Lab
“Libraries and librarians need to see themselves as active agents … who must support community participation and take a stand against social injustice.”
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