Lead organisation
Book Bunk Trust
Grant award
£206,992.10
Project summary
This project preserved and promoted the paper-based collections housed at the McMillan Library in Nairobi. Interns were trained in digitisation, metadata creation and archive management, using these new skills to preserve endangered archives at risk of damage due to the effects of climate change.
The library installed digitisation and audio recording booths, allowing members of the public to digitise their own personal collections of family photographs, letters and journals. The activities were documented and shared with online and offline communities through exhibitions, screenings and panel discussions as well as a series of podcasts about cultural heritage protection and the digitisation process.
