Office of the Governor

Feleti Barstow Public Library, the designated State Library Administrative Agency for the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, will use grant funds to support the Polynesian Photo Archives, a digital repository of visual images related to Samoan culture and traditions. The project will preserve and make accessible archival materials that are historically and culturally significant to the Samoan Islands and Polynesia, dating from the 1840s to the present. A portion of the Polynesian Photo Archives has been digitized, and grant funds will support continued efforts to process and digitize this collection. The project will also fund staff to attend the biannual Pacific workshop organized by IMLS.