New Grant to Support Preservation of Records Used to Secure Navajo Nation Water Rights

On November 7, 2024, the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) announced the award of a $300,000 grant to a library preservation collaboration between the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources (NNDWR), Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environmental and Social Justice at the University of Arizona and LLMC as part of CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices grant program. 

Now in its fifth year, the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources Library Preservation Project (NNDWRLPP) is digitizing 8,250 print resources from the NNDWR library. Over the next three years, the grant will enable the project to digitize a total of approximately 1,500 documents, which represents around 10% of the collection. 

Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices is a grant competition administered by CLIR and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support efforts to preserve materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and others with work, experiences and perspectives that have been insufficiently recognized. 

To learn more about the project, its importance and the partnership, please visit the College of Law annoucement.