Igiugig Village

Igiugig Village, located in southwestern Alaska on the shore of Lake Iliamna, maintains an active joint school-public library, which will utilize this grant to gather local knowledge, oral history, and elder recollections of the community. Material collected will be the basis for a digitization project of historic photos, other images, and stories related to the early history of the village. It will fulfill the need for a published history of Igiugig Village with the assistance of native elders who can tell the story firsthand. The library staff will purchase digitization equipment and receive training on digital projects from an experienced librarian who created a similar digital archive and storytelling project in another rural Alaska village. They will also learn and follow appropriate protocol to safely archive the collected information and to record, preserve and disseminate these materials.