Africana project awarded $173,000

The General Library System will help the African Studies Program preserve its slide, photograph and video collections through a National Leadership Grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The award of $173,000 is one of 41 awards nationwide. More than 250 proposals were submitted in the $6.5 million competition. The Africana project, which expands on the model of the highly successful Southeast Asian Images and Text project, will make the digitally recorded images, videos and audio clips available through CD-ROM, the web and other media.