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Arctic Slope Regional Corporation – Barrow, AK
Year: 2004
Amount: $149,999  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
The objectives for this project are to scan on to microfilm and digitize primary source material from the Dr. Rosita Worl collection and other documents from the 1960s and 1970s that are pertinent to the establishment of the North Slope Borough and to the Iñupiat culture and language. A full-text index will be generated and mounted on the Internet with links to the scanned images in PDF format. The project will enhance local skills in advanced archival techniques in the environment of a small, remote library by maintaining nationally recognized standards for access to digital collections.

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe – Eagle Butte, SD
Year: 2004
Amount: $21,585  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This grant will establish an electronic linkage with the South Dakota Library Network that will develop the library's integrated online system and provide expanded electronic resources. Additional computers and equipment to produce community library cards will increase the library's presence and effectiveness for the entire Cheyenne River Sioux tribal community.

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon – Warm Springs, OR
Year: 2004
Amount: $150,000  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will be a collaborative effort between the Warm Springs Community Library and the Warm Springs Community Action Team to hire a full-time librarian, increase hours of library operation, coordinate library programs and activities, increase collections, and institute a cataloging and automation system. The Library and Community Action Team will initiate a community outreach program to familiarize the community with the local library, implement a community assessment survey, and coordinate community volunteers for library programs.

Fort Belknap Indian Community – Harlem, MT
Year: 2004
Amount: $149,658  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will increase the library's effectiveness in meeting community needs by enhancing children's reading activities through after-school and summer reading programs for K through 6 schoolchildren, family reading nights, and storytelling hours with tribal elders; and by increasing the availability of online information resources; upgrading cataloging software; and expanding library holdings in Native American history, culture, and literature.

Hoopa Valley Tribe – Hoopa, CA
Year: 2004
Amount: $145,164  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will continue the partnership with Humboldt County to provide expanded library services to the Kim Yerton Memorial Library. In support of this partnership, the library plans to improve reading and study space; increase circulation, computer/Internet usage, and Internet services; and promote community outreach.

Lummi Tribe – Bellingham, WA
Year: 2004
Amount: $127,394  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will enhance literacy within the Lummi community by hosting holiday literacy events for both children and adults; creating and distributing themed literacy kits to parents, daycare centers, Head Start, and Tribal School students; sponsoring summer reading programs that highlight Native American culture and cultural diversity; and purchasing full-text databases, books, videos, and computer equipment.

Miami Tribe Of Oklahoma – Miami, OK
Year: 2004
Amount: $146,510  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will support the development of an electronic catalog for the Miami Tribal Archives; the enhancement of the library/archives Web site with information of interest to Miami tribal members nationwide; and the improvement of the CHARLIE (Connecting Help and Resources Linking Indians Effectively) Library Network that serves northeast Oklahoma tribes by providing a traveling librarian to mentor and train CHARLIE librarians, implementing interlibrary loan services among the eight CHARLIE sites and expanding the Roots and Wings program, which distributes books to young tribal members.

Muscogee (Creek) Nation – Eufaula, OK
Year: 2004
Amount: $129,562  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will establish a partnership between the Muscogee Nation Library and Archives and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History for digitizing, transcribing, and preserving 27 oral history interviews from 1997 with tribal elders. Muscogee library staff will receive training on maintaining archival materials, creating electronic formats, and enhancing accessibility through Internet linkages. Muscogee staff will also learn to conduct oral history interviews with a goal of recording 25 new interviews with elders during this project.

Pueblo of Jemez – Jemez Pueblo, NM
Year: 2004
Amount: $146,626  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
The goals of this project are to strengthen the Jemez Library Consortium by sharing library resources and coordinating literacy programs with five local schools; to enhance reading skills of community members of all ages by providing family literacy programs, after-school tutoring, reading clubs and Summer Reading; to increase computer literacy and access to information for all community members; and to contribute to the preservation of the Jemez language and culture by providing programs on traditional arts, storytelling, and genealogy.

Pueblo of Santa Clara – Espanola, NM
Year: 2004
Amount: $150,000  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will expand the library's services by increasing its technological capabilities; enhancing literacy programs of both its school-aged and elderly populations through elder/grandchild reading programs, tutoring in remedial reading, and reading incentive programs for summer youth workers; and digitizing documents for the tribal language program as well as expanding the tribe's digital archives initiative to include a Tribal Constitution project that will involve at-risk youth in the preservation of their community's culture.

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians – Bayfield, WI
Year: 2004
Amount: $75,824  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This collaborative project will enhance library services by sharing the resources of the Red Cliff Library, Red Cliff Even Start Program, and Red Cliff Language and Historic Preservation Office. It will increase the library's hours and collections, expand academic and technological resources, and improve literacy enrichment programs and language and cultural preservation initiatives.

Sitka Tribe of Alaska (IRA) – Sitka, AK
Year: 2004
Amount: $104,920  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will be a collaborative effort among the Sitka Tribal Library, the Kettleson Memorial Public Library, Sheldon Jackson College Library, Sitka Historical Society, Isabella Miller Museum, and Sitka National Historical Park. This consortium will work to survey, preserve, and digitize the photograph collection donated by Romaine Hardcastle, which spans Sitka tribal history from the 1920s through 1960s, as well as to document the photographs by interviewing tribal members who can identify the people and artwork in the collection.

Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas – El Paso, TX
Year: 2004
Amount: $126,490  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will support the continuing mission of the Tigua Literacy Program to introduce middle and high school students to strategies for success on standardized tests through peer mentoring and test simulations; by building and promoting a collection of biographies and children's nonfiction titles for Grades K through 8; and by continuing to enhance computer literacy among tribal members.

Zuni Tribe – Zuni, NM
Year: 2004
Amount: $96,321  
Grant: Native American Library Services - Enhancement Grants
This project will provide for a bookmobile operator and a children's program coordinator as well as collection development for the bookmobile and main library children's and adult collections.

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