[Nmtriblibs] Fw: [EXTERNAL] follow up from NALSIG meeting -- please take this brief survey about the proposed Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium by Feb 1

Tue Jan 25 12:35:44 MST 2022

I am sending this for those who may not be part of the NAL-SIG group. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cassandra

Cassandra E. Osterloh, MLS, MA (Cherokee Nation)
Pronouns: she, her, hers
Tribal Libraries Program Coordinator
Library Development Services Bureau
New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507

505-476-9764 (office)
505-264-2427 (cell)
cassandra.osterloh at state.nm.us
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From: anna annanaruta.com <anna at annanaruta.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:31 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] follow up from NALSIG meeting -- please take this brief survey about the proposed Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium by Feb 1

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Greetings All,

Thank you very much for the opportunity to share at the January NALSIG meeting about our proposed Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium. We appreciate your time!

Please help us take the next step by taking the brief six question survey below. Please provide your responses to the survey below by email by Tuesday, February 1. Please send by reply to anna at annanaruta.com.

Purpose: Institutions interested in creating more effective online access to material related to Native communities are invited to subscribe to membership in the Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium. The IDA Consortium will provide the baseline technical operating funding to the Indigenous Digital Archive, providing for the web server fees and technical maintenance contract.

The IDA provides online access to and ways of working together with over 300,000 pages of historic documents from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s related to New Mexico tribal communities, including collections from SFIS archives and the yearbooks and other items from AIS and other schools given to Professor Ted Jojola for safekeeping. More will be added under current grants.

The online resources of the IDA support a wide array of culturally appropriate educational programming. Uses of the IDA include:

  *   Compiling lists of who in a community attended one of the historic boarding schools, and learning more about their classmates from their own and other Tribes

  *   Researching early Day School history — what was it like for students? How did what they studied change?

  *   Finding out about historic events and the relations of the administration and tribal communities evidence in the Superintendents’ reports and correspondence

  *   Researching family and community history using historic documents as a complement to or as a prompt for oral history

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1) Would you subscribe to a membership in the IDA Consortium?

2) Would you be able to subscribe at $1000 per year? $500? Another amount? (Please indicate how much)

3) Do you use the IDA now, either at DigiTreaties.org or the main site at IndigenousDigitalArchive.org?

4) Would you be interested in an online training event for using the IDA? What time of day / week works best?

5) Would you be interested in participating in testing the new enhancements to the IDA as they are developed this spring and summer?

6) Ideally, what would you like your role to be in the future of the IDA?

We appreciate your time and responses. Thank you!

Anna Naruta-Moya

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From the January 2022 NALSIG meeting:

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(last modified 1/7/22)

About and Invitation to Join

The Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in partnership with the The MICA Group (the Multicultural Initiative for Community Advancement) are pleased to announce the launch of the Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium, an independent, community led membership association to support the development and maintenance of materials related to Native communities on the Indigenous Digital Archive (IDA).

The Indigenous Digital Archive was established in 2016 by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in partnership with the New Mexico State Libraries and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Through support by the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Knight Foundation, the Santa Fe Community Foundation, the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board, the National Archives Foundation (from an anonymous donor, for the DigiTreaties.org portal), and now a second consecutive National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Resources (IMLS), the IDA continues work to provide tools to create effective online access to historic documents related to Native communities of New Mexico and wider communities interconnected through events such as the historic Indian boarding schools.

The IDA provides access to over 300,000 pages of historic documents from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, and in the case of yearbooks provided by the library of today’s Santa Fe Indian School, all the way to 2017. Importantly, the ability for people work individually or together to make sense of those documents through features like being able to tag individual pages of documents. An IMLS funded pilot project of IDA Fellows, supported researchers from the 23 tribes of New Mexico plus Hopi, demonstrated the usefulness of the IDA as an online resource supporting culturally appropriate education.

The IDA project continues to refine software tools to provide a more effective user experience, and to this end is currently undertaking IMLS grant supported work to experiment with different approaches to computer assisted processing and user experience design. A CLIR grant is supporting acquisition and cataloging of documents going back to the 1820s, and a large volume of documents at the National Archives at Denver that have been otherwise unavailable except in person.

“Community determination has always been at the core of the IDA,” notes project director Dr. Anna Naruta-Moya, “and with this launch the IDA Consortium forms an important hub for library and archives practitioners to have an active, invested role in shaping this resource as it matures from version 1.0 through recursive design and testing.”

Institutions who are interested in creating more effective online access to material related to Native communities are invited to membership in the IDA Consortium.

Membership Benefits

When you join the IDA Consortium, your membership dollars directly support the server fees for the online database and IT maintenance for sustained operation of the IDA throughout browser and other software upgrades.

Additional member benefits include:

  *   Subscription to a dedicated IDA member mailing list

  *   Knowledge sharing and networking with colleagues local and national

  *   Professional development and training opportunities

  *   Opportunity to serve on the advisory panel of the IDA

  *   Prioritization in future enhancement requests

  *   Voting governance of the Consortium

Annual Membership Fee

The IDA Consortium offers tiered membership levels based on institution type and size.

General Member dues are $1000 per year. Tribal institutions and others with fewer than 10 staff members are eligible for general member dues.

Large Institution Member dues are $3000 per year.

Sustaining Membership dues are $5000 per year. Sustaining membership support the database server fees and operation and participation of more institutions in the Consortium.

Excelsior Memberships due are $10,000 and allow an institution to support additional activities of the Consortium, ingest and/or cataloging of particular material into the IDA, or additional development and maintenance costs.

The IDA Consortium subscription fee schedule will be revisited annually. For example, if membership fees collected in one year exceed the costs of server fees and software maintenance, the Consortium can determine to pro-rate and lower the consortium fees in the following year.

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) is proud to partner with the MICA Group (the Multicultural Initiative for Community Advancement) in hosting the Indigenous Digital Archive Consortium for this collaborative project of MIAC, the New Mexico State Library, and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The MICA Group, a 501(3)c nonprofit, was founded in 2006 by Wilma Mankiller and Della Warrior to connect tribal communities and tribes with people and resources to achieve their goals.

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