New project to focus on city's Asian community
The Atlantic City Free Public Library has received a New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) Community History Pilot Project award for $5,000. The library will utilize the funding for a project focusing on the history of Atlantic City’s Asian community, from the city’s inception in 1854 to present day.
The resources collected for this project will including narrators’ recollections (oral history interviews), newspapers, photographs and documents.
The library is looking for members of the city’s Asian community who would be willing to share their memories and stories as part of the project’s oral history component. Also, the library is aiming to digitize photos and documents that highlight the people and businesses from that community.
“The oral history project is important in that it is addressing a community that is usually overlooked,” said library archivist and project coordinator Jacqueline Silver-Morillo.
The oral history interviews will be available to the community and researchers in English and others languages — including Bengali, Hindi and Tagalog. The interview transcriptions will be available to the community and researchers in bound books at the library and also online on the library’s Atlantic City Heritage Collections Digital Repository.
Those who wish to learn more about this project or participate can call Silver-Morillo at (609) 345-2269, ext. 3066, or email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
This project is supported by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The resources collected for this project will including narrators’ recollections (oral history interviews), newspapers, photographs and documents.
The library is looking for members of the city’s Asian community who would be willing to share their memories and stories as part of the project’s oral history component. Also, the library is aiming to digitize photos and documents that highlight the people and businesses from that community.
“The oral history project is important in that it is addressing a community that is usually overlooked,” said library archivist and project coordinator Jacqueline Silver-Morillo.
The oral history interviews will be available to the community and researchers in English and others languages — including Bengali, Hindi and Tagalog. The interview transcriptions will be available to the community and researchers in bound books at the library and also online on the library’s Atlantic City Heritage Collections Digital Repository.
Those who wish to learn more about this project or participate can call Silver-Morillo at (609) 345-2269, ext. 3066, or email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
This project is supported by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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