Grant funds MLIS students' work in community archives
Community archives are an important way of preserving knowledge and making it accessible, including for historically marginalized groups whose stories are often ignored or misrepresented. Such archives, however, rarely have the resources they need. A new grant will help address some of that problem while giving iSchool students a chance to gain hands-on experience working with community archives.Marika Cifor, an associate professor at the University of Washington Information School and the principal investigator on the project, has been awarded a $850,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. Cifo