BATON ROUGE - Louisiana State University School of Information Studies was awarded a $91,430 National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support Vietnam-era veterans' recordkeeping.

The two-year planning project, named the Virtual Footlocker Project 2, will create a program for librarians, archivists and Veteran Service Organizations to help veterans document and preserve their personal and service records.

"This project builds on years of work connecting veterans with the tools to tell their own stories," interim director of SIS Edward Benoit said.

The new project expands upon the previous Virtual Footlocker Project, which developed resources for post-2000 service members and recent veterans to create and maintain personal record collect

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