Native American Communities Receive $1.7 Million for Library Enhancements

IMLS: What's New: Current News: "The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal funds for the nation's museums and libraries, awarded $1,720,053 today to 14 Native American tribal communities and Alaska Native villages to improve library services to their communities. The recipients will match the grants with an additional $853,328...

Projects funded include among others, digitizing primary source material on the establishment of the North Slope Borough and the Inupiate culture and language in Alaska; enhancing literacy of school-aged and elderly populations through elder/grandchild reading programs at the Pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico; and preserving oral histories with tribal elders of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma."