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Creating Your Community
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Alternate TitleCreating Your Community Grant ProjectSummaryCreating Your Community: Empowering Individuals and Safeguarding Communal Heritage Through Digital Community Archiving (CYC) built on the library's previous Creating Communities grant project by modeling participatory archives (in which Denverites shared their own collections), digitizing materials at Denver Public Library, and partnering with institutions around the greater Denver metropolitan area, including Historic Denver and Zion Baptist Church.
The Creating Your Community project was designed to accomplish five main goals:
1. To preserve and disseminate community heritage
2. To develop a new model for collection donation and access
3. To educate and instruct communities on how to preserve their materials and records
4. To connect collections with other communities as well as to encourage social inclusion, especially for minority communities.
5. To develop and strengthen library/museum/community partnerships. Search
The Creating Your Community project was designed to accomplish five main goals:
1. To preserve and disseminate community heritage
2. To develop a new model for collection donation and access
3. To educate and instruct communities on how to preserve their materials and records
4. To connect collections with other communities as well as to encourage social inclusion, especially for minority communities.
5. To develop and strengthen library/museum/community partnerships. Search
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Six students from Mitchell Elementary School are standing behind a table counting money for stamps and bonds. There are three girls and three boys. One of the boys is African-American. Behind the students is a blackboard announcing it is the twenty second week. On the blackboard is an assignment to put a list of words in alphabetic order and a banner with a shamrock on it.
Creating Your Community. Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 12/12/2024, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1135967