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"The FRC (Folklike Resource Center) houses an extensive archive containing a wide variety of materials in multiple formats. The project addresses two goals. The first goal involves transferring all of these analog formats into a more stable digital medium. This requires the digitization of thousands of photographs and slides, hundreds of hours of analog audio and video documentation. The second goal - user accessibility. Website visitors will now have unprecedented access to the archive through audio, video, and image-based media. Never before has the material housed in the FRC been available to such a wide audience."

The web site of Local Learning links to national and regional resources and virtual folk artist residencies, specifically relating to Upper Midwestern cultures. "Archiving Projects promote organizational partnerships to identify, preserve, and make accessible for public use the region's historic and contemporary folk heritage as documented in audio and video interviews, photography, exhibits, and publications resulting primarily from ethnographic fieldwork. These projects serve the teaching, research, and outreach needs of the Center's staff, affiliated faculty, public folklorists, scholars, documented traditional practitioners and their heirs, and others interested in exploring and promoting the region's folk heritage."

A video-streaming national preserve of American folk culture documentaries and offers users extensive background materials for each film. Use excerpts or entire films and the Educators Portal.