Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin

The Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College Community Library, which serves as both an academic and public library, will digitize historical collections with a focus on the Lac Courte Oreilles community newspapers. These collections serve as important primary sources documenting tribal elections, genealogy, and photographs, and the project will help inventory them. The newspapers are currently stored in archival boxes and thus not as widely accessible, but this project will digitize and upload them to a website. Other materials will then be identified for digitization, including scrapbooks, yearbooks, and newsletters. The library will work with its local history group to offer a writing and research workshop and encourage the sharing of stories on the library website. The project also will offer community programming around anniversaries of historic events.