Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin

In partnership with the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa College Community Library will play an enhanced role in offering language and cultural resources and services to area schools and the community at large. Library staff will offer evaluation workshops to area educators that introduce criteria for selecting high quality Ojibwa materials for their students. Grant funds will be used to create small in-house collections for Head Start and area school libraries. A manual with annotated bibliography and selection guidelines will be developed for wider distribution. The library will increase the number of frequently-requested cultural resources and further enhance a sense of cultural “immersion” by creating bilingual shelf signs and finding aids. The summer reading program will incorporate language activities while additional cultural programming will be provided based on the seasonal activities of the traditional Ojibwa.