Oregon Folklife Collections Access Project

About This Grant

This project will improve public access to Oregon folklife collections in the Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore and the Oregon Folklife Network, formerly the Oregon Folklife Program. These resources document communities that are underrepresented in the cultural record of the region and underserved by cultural heritage organizations. The project will build on a previous collaboration between the Folklore Program and the UO Libraries to implement the Archivists' Toolkit and develop a database for 3,500 fieldwork collections. In the first year the Archives will complete three major activities: 1) Inventory and preservation survey of media materials in the Archives' collections; 2) Publication of findings aids and catalog records for these collections in Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA), and OCLC WorldCat; 3) Development of a Northwest Folklife Digital Collection.