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Title:

Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Cold Lake First Nations 2024-25

Agreement Number:

LHOV-05-091

Agreement Value:

$24,999.00

Agreement Date:

Jun 3, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025

Description:

In 2022–2023, Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) initiated foundational efforts to preserve the Nation's documentary heritage by creating an Archives Policy, an Archives Committee, and a Facility Plan. This led to CLFN's 2023–2024 Listen, Hear Our Voices project "Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Cold Lake First Nations." This project focuses on digitizing at-risk items needing urgent intervention, such as oral history maps and media (cassettes, videos and floppy disks), expanding the Nation's digital storage capacity, and researching into accessibility models. As a result of the 2022–2023 project, it has become apparent that next steps should be continued digitization of paper-based records into a digital inventory. This will be achieved using a scanner and software package purchased this year.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Creation of standard operating procedures for digitization

Greater organizational capacity to undertake preservation through digitization

Substantial increase of documentary heritage in CLFN digital archival inventory

Increased knowledge and understanding about archival digitization practices

Location:

Cold Lake, Alberta, CA T9M 1P4

Reference Number:

129-2024-2025 Q1-LHOV-05-091

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

Cold Lake First Nations

Program:

Listen, Hear Our Voices

Program Purpose:

Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.