# Connecting Communities Digital Initiative

Darshni Patel and Joshua Ortiz Baco's summer project provides the groundwork for answering these questions by drawing on the vast experience of Library staff, who have been developing these connections as part of their regular duties. At the same time, the fellows developed a preliminary survey based on first-hand accounts of the kinds of projects and practices developed by organizations currently engaging with Library of Congress materials or those that could benefit from including these digital collections as part of their own ethnic and racial-cultural heritage work. Through the course of the investigation on behalf of CCDI, we hope to ultimately offer recommendations and suggestions to the newly emergent program for internal use. This project supports CCDI's goal of leveraging innovative digital approaches and overlooked materials to help creators bring new audiences to the Library.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697560/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024697560?play=1)