Community history & digitization [boston public library?s community history & digitization project will identify, digitize, preserve, and contextualize community-based archival collections for…
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- ZDH28330522
- Recipient
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Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. UEI WB5PFW6KC7E4
- Awarding agency
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National Endowment for the Humanities
- Obligated
- $232,583
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 45.169 Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities
- Completion date
- Originally
- Place of performance
- Massachusetts, USA
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Description
- Activities
- this project will & nbsp; distribute oral history backpacks to community members, containing form templates, interview guides, and audio recording equipment to allow preservation of historical knowledge among boston residents. IT will also support community archiving activities & nbsp; at several sites around boston. the harriet tubman house, a community gathering space in the south end, will collect interviews and archival materials that showcase the history and local significance of the house. The neighborhood public & nbsp; art and city equity project will catalogue and archive the public art in boston, as well as give IT context with artist interviews, maps, and & nbsp; pertinent archival records. the east boston memoir project aims to capture participant?s memoirs and oral histories over a 16-week course. the chinatown collections inventory aims to preserve historical memories of the chinatown neighborhood in an archive. The & nbsp; tech goes home project & nbsp; will collect & nbsp; individual histories & nbsp; from those suffering from digital inequality in boston. The public workshops program & nbsp; will & nbsp; continue & nbsp; workshops and archiving put on pause by the pandemic. 
- Expected outcomes
- the outcome & nbsp; of & nbsp; all of & nbsp; the & nbsp; aforementioned projects & nbsp; will be the collection and archival of oral histories from multiple & nbsp; perspectives in the boston area. these histories & nbsp; will & nbsp; then be disseminated to the wider public. 
- Intended beneficiaries
- the project will be fully open to the public and available to the entire boston community. boston public library will deploy the above activities in the boston neighborhoods of south end, roxbury, chinatown, and east boston. BPL branch libraries in these neighborhoods will be utilized as community spaces for the execution of & nbsp; the & nbsp; activities described above.  
- Subrecipient activities
- this project does not intend to issue any subawards. ]
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment | -$28,658 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Original award | $261,241 |
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Who received award ZDH28330522?
ZDH28330522 was awarded to Boston Public Library Fund, Inc. by National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2022.
How much is award ZDH28330522 worth?
$232,583 has been obligated on ZDH28330522.
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