Grant to support continued work of collaborative curation by WSU, partners, Native nations

The National Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded $334,000 to Washington State University, institutional partners, and nine Native American nations to extend their work advancing collaborative curation between Native communities and non-Native repositories. The funding is part of CLIR’s “Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices” grant program for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the United States and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program supports efforts to digitize materials that “deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended,” according to the CLIR website.