Arhoolie Foundation Core Collections Readiness Project

FAIN: PW-290526-23

Arhoolie Foundation (El Cerrito, CA 94530-3123)
Clark Noone (Project Director: July 2022 to March 2025)

The basic processing and creation of finding aids for seven core archival collections at the Arhoolie Foundation, as well as reports outlining the selection of digital asset management and preservation systems and the identification of items in the collection needing digitization and further processing.

The Arhoolie Foundation seeks a $50,000 Foundations grant to perform critical processing, descriptive, and planning work on our core archival collections. With a backlog of roughly 126 linear feet of unprocessed paper, photograph, and audiovisual materials, we will use the Foundations grant to arrange, catalog, and make collections discoverable through online finding aids, while identifying materials for digitization and in-depth processing. To ensure sustainable access to our digital holdings, will also study and select digital asset management and digital preservation systems. These time-sensitive actions will make our core collections more accessible and more secure, open up new kinds of digital outreach possibilities, and strengthen our ability to serve our community of users far into the future.