Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization, Program to Support Digital Diversity

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dc.contributor.authorHarrell, Jonathan G.
dc.contributor.authorNaquin, Elisa
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-02T14:00:37Z
dc.date.available2024-12-02T14:00:37Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-31
dc.descriptionThe intention of the “Y’ALL Means All” project was to leverage the strong ties within the LDL community to facilitate broader representation of the state’s digital cultural heritage by helping small institutions digitize and share their content. The LDL team at LSU Libraries worked with a team at Louisiana State University of Alexandria (LSUA), and later with a team at Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) to set up a regional digitization hub to make digitization equipment and staff expertise available locally to cultural heritage institutions in a geographic area not currently served by these resources. “Y'ALL Means All” builds on current initiatives. LSU Libraries currently offers the Louisiana Heritage Digitization Award (formerly the Y’ALL Award) to expand participation in the LDL by sharing digitization equipment and expertise with under-resourced libraries, archives, and museums. The award’s former name was intended to gesture toward the project’s focus on community. “Y’ALL” is not only an inclusive and regional plural pronoun, but an acronym for the award’s motto: You Are Louisiana’s Legacy. While we have changed the name after feedback from partners that the word “y’all” can easily be read as othering, the goal of greater inclusion of the full Louisiana community is still at its core. The Louisiana Heritage Digitization Award is open to any state heritage institution with a preference toward collections that are inclusive of communities that have been historically underrepresented in cultural heritage repositories. The Y’ALL Means All project is intended to expand the digitization capacity in the state and decentralize LSU in Baton Rouge as the principal actor. Funds from this grant allowed us to purchase equipment for a community-focused digitization space in a second location: Louisiana State University of Alexandria, situated in central Louisiana, an area that is both rich in cultural history and currently geographically underrepresented in LDL collections.
dc.description.abstractLouisiana State University Libraries applied for a 2022 LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant to fund “Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization Program to Support Digital Diversity” to advance digital inclusion for small and under-funded cultural heritage institutions by creating a permanent regional digitization hub in central Louisiana. This was to build on the work accomplished by the Louisiana Heritage Digitization Award (formerly the You Are Louisiana’s Legacy, or Y’ALL, award), in which LSU Libraries works with smaller cultural heritage institutions to digitize their holdings and share them in the Louisiana Digital Library.
dc.description.sponsorshipLyrasis Louisiana State University Libraries
dc.identifier.citationHarrell, Jonathan G.; Naquin, Elisa. "Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization, Program to Support Digital Diversity." 8/31/2024, 1-5. DOI:10.48609/4npd-4d52
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12669/117
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherLYRASIS; Louisiana State University Libraries
dc.rightsCC BY-SA 4.0
dc.subject.lcshData sets
dc.subject.lcshOpen source software--Library applications
dc.subject.lcshUnited States. Congress--Archives
dc.titleY'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization, Program to Support Digital Diversity
dc.typeWorking Paper

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