Arizona Western College's Project Impact

FAIN: CHA-261900-19

Arizona Western College (Yuma, AZ 85366-0929)
Jana L. Moore (Project Director: March 2018 to May 2022)
Angela L. Creel (Project Director: May 2022 to present)

The renovation of Arizona Western College’s library to include a digital humanities center that supports the college as well as three other public universities.

PROJECT IMPACT will build infrastructure and increase capacity-building at the sole academic library in Southwest Arizona that serves scholars at Arizona Western College and Arizona’s 3 public university.  NEH Challenge Grant funding will establish a Digital Humanities Center that will support intellectually transformative thoughts and behaviors that will continue to grow over time. The development of the Conservation Lab will allow scholars to practice the craft of arts preservation and cataloging while preserving local art collections.  The establishment of a Digital Humanities Center will provide a large population of low-income, first-generation, Hispanic scholars access to multimedia, multidisciplinary learning space dedicated to preserving the region’s unique intellectual content of materials, disseminating local knowledge to a wider audience, and acting as a transformational tool to produce new ways of interacting, expressing, and creating knowledge.