La Casita Digital Archive Now Publicly Available on New York Heritage Archive
Collections from La Casita Cultural Center ’s Cultural Memory Archive are now publicly available in the New York Heritage Digital Collections.
The "Abuelitas" project was featured in the AY21 Syracuse Symposium on 'Futures'
Nine digital collections from La Casita Cultural Center ’s Cultural Memory Archive are now publicly available in the New York Heritage Digital Collections thanks to a grant from the Central NY Library Resources Council (CLRC). The Digital Library Program at Syracuse University Libraries, in collaboration with La Casita, submitted the grant application to CLRC in 2020 to create digital access to the history and experience of Latine/Hispanic communities in Central and Upstate New York to advance scholarly research and understanding around this underrepresented culture in this region. The Libraries is the largest academic library in the CLRC region.
As the New York State Archives observed in A Guide to Documenting Latino/Hispanic History and Culture in New York State, “historical information is inadequately represented in the documentation of broad areas of Hispanic culture, including the fine arts, popular music and dance forms, and folk and traditional arts...” [Read the full SU News story.]