Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center Selected Amongst Several Organizations to be the Collections Partner for a Community Archiving Workshop
Submitted by the Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center
This archiving workshop is an exciting opportunity offered as part of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) conference this upcoming November.
As the collections partner, the Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center (SNOCC), will provide a workshop with 200 non-sensitive audiovisual (AV) materials from their collections and historical archives to be digitized. Curator Randee Spruce and Collections Database Manager Brianna Lyman will work alongside professional AV archivists and workshop participants to digitize all 200 of the AV.
At the end of this partnership, the SNOCC will acquire new-found expertise in the processing and preservation of AV materials. In addition, the 200 digitized items will eventually be added to the new SNOCC online database. The database is set to launch in fall of 2024, and will allow the sharing of non-sensitive collections materials with the public which include digitized reel-to-reels, photographs, VHS, and much more.
Image description: (From left to right), Mike Johnny-John, Brian Mohr, Kevin Johnny-John, Bill Crouse Sr., Richard Johnny-John (Ggwë:de’), Sandy Crouse, Lori Redeye, Sherri Ingersoll, Sandy Kenyon, Jacquie Crouse, unknown. Photo taken at the Cattaraugus County Fair, in Little Valley, NY. Circa 1975. From the photographic collections of the Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë: de’ Cultural Center
