Safeguarding cultural memory: protecting and providing access to 40 years of washington state traditions and stories [humanities washington seeks a planning grant from the national endowment for the…

Safeguarding cultural memory: protecting and providing access to 40 years of washington state traditions and stories [humanities washington seeks a planning grant from the national endowment for the humanities to help complete a full assessment of an aggregated washington state folklife collection. During the project period, humanities washington will prepare materials for digitization, perform a collection-wide assessment of geographic, cultural, or occupational connections and opportunities for individual and cross-disciplinary research, create a digitization plan, work with interested scholars and institutions to fully explore potential uses for the collection, and complete due diligence to identify a responsible final repository for the original materials. When properly preserved, made widely accessible for scholars and researchers, and made available for use by cultural communities and institutions serving the general public, these materials will provide a wealth of important information about and for the diverse communities of washington state.]