photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

The Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., is pictured Friday, May 27, 2022.

A team of University of Kansas scholars is hosting a community engagement event this weekend to digitize materials from the local Native American community.

As part of KU’s Indigenous Archives and Tribal Preservation course, the team at the event will digitize oral histories, photographs, artwork, newspapers, letters and postcards from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., in meeting room C.

Once digitized, the items can be kept for personal family records, tribal archives or for publication on KU’s American Indian Digital History Project and the KU Libraries. The project was founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs and archival materials from across Native North America.

Folks interested in attending can RSVP here.