The hawaiian mission children's society will transcribe the manuscripts in the hawai'ian evangelical association collection to english and create an accurate finding aid

Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action

Award ID
NH246629OLS20
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$282,910

Award facts

Assistance listing
45.311 Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services
Completion date
Funding
  • $150,000.00 Federal
  • $132,910.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Honolulu, HI 96813, USA

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Description

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The manuscripts include church business correspondence, letters, and various church and secular related documents such as baptism, marriage, death, and funeral records that provide vital genealogical data. Project staff will digitize and make manuscripts accessible to the community, educators, and scholars via the mission houses archives web portal. They will produce a best practices manual for transcribing archival documents written in 'olelo hawai'i, providing a new and vital resource for transcribing within the archiving and transcription field. The society will reach out to community and immersion schools for workshop opportunities to teach hawai'ian language transcription in the archival setting. The transcribers will also be trained to teach their communities how to use the tools created from this project in their own fields of practice.

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Who received award NH246629OLS20?

NH246629OLS20 was awarded to The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society by Institute of Museum and Library Services (National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities) on September 1, 2020.

How much is award NH246629OLS20 worth?

$282,910 has been obligated on NH246629OLS20: $150,000 in federal funding and $132,910 in non-federal funding.

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