Opportunity for Public Comment
Date: Thursday April 2nd, 2009
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: University Center Building, 411 N. Central Ave
Information Commons Computer Lab, Lower Level
Arizona State University at the Downtown Phoenix campus
You are invited to help us build Why Arizona? The Arizona Migration Digital Library, a freely accessible digital library of archival materials that tell us stories about why people chose to come to Arizona, why they stayed, and why they left. Through the lens of thousands of archival photos, audio recordings, videos and texts we will connect individuals and families of the past and present who chose Arizona for employment, religious freedom, ethnic communities or recreation.
We invite anyone to participate in this project by offering their stories, suggesting topics or events they would like to see documented here, or simply cheering us on! At this meeting the public will be invited to learn about the progress of the project, see samples and descriptions of materials nominated for digitization and public access and add their voice to our work! If you can’t attend the meeting, please visit our website at www.whyarizona.org and email your comments!
Why Arizona is a multi-year collaboration of archivists, librarians and technology professionals from the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University that will be formally unveiled in time for the Arizona Centennial in 2012. In the meantime, watch us grow! The project is supported with funds granted by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Agency under the Library Services and Technology Act, which is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Why Arizona? The Arizona Migration Digital Library is grateful to the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission for designation of Why Arizona? as an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project.
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My Father and two other engineers would headed for the Boulder(Hoover?)Dam site in 1929.
They ran out of money and gasoline in Phoenix!
Lots people from the ‘dust bowl’ stopped in Arizona for the same reason!