Five new projects have been awarded funding under Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program (AADPP), which provides matching funds for B.C. Aboriginal organizations to digitize audio cassette tapes for preservation and access.
The projects are:
• “Preserving Lake Babine Nation’s Oral History” – Lake Babine Nation
• “Preserving Splatsin Historical Audio Collections” – Splatsin Tsmtaksaltn Teaching Centre Society
• “Unlocking Tsleil-Waututh Oral History through Audio Digitization” – Tsleil-Waututh Nation
• “A Decade of Indigenous Governance: Digitizing and Preserving UBCIC Chiefs Council Meetings (1985-1995)” – Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
• “Preservation and Digitization of Tahltan Knowledge and Wisdom” – Tahltan Central Council
The AADPP initiative is led by UBC Library in partnership with the Museum of Anthropology. Click here for more information.
