<html><body><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">1 September 2026</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) at the University of Texas at Austin is delighted to announce the launch of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; text-transform: none;">second edition</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> of the free online textbook <i>Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections</i>, available at its new, dedicated website,<a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="2c5ab507-e027-4a45-be02-770a7a8ea10e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="e7b83d9b-886e-404b-a8dc-d7f0c33ccdeb" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">, as part of the University of Texas Libraries Open Books Pressbooks Publishing Network at<a href="https://utexas.pressbooks.pub/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="3a72e7cb-2d27-46d7-a22f-f085af7e007f" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://utexas.pressbooks.pub/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="13bc0844-3177-429f-8b27-59d2b1318451" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://utexas.pressbooks.pub/archivingforthefuture/</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">The textbook is a resource to aid people of all backgrounds in organizing born-digital and digitized language materials and data for deposit into any digital repository (not just AILLA) for long-term preservation and accessibility. The target audience for this course is anyone who is engaged in creating materials in or about Indigenous, endangered, under-documented, or minority languages as part of language documentation efforts, including language rights, maintenance, and revitalization. It was designed particularly for individuals or groups made up of academic researchers and/or Indigenous or minority language speakers and community members, though anyone may benefit from it. The curriculum follows simple steps to guide participants through three phases of work to organize language documentation materials for archiving, and it explains in detail what to do before, during, and after data collection to facilitate the long-term preservation of the data. The course is designed to be informative, engaging, and accessible to anyone, especially to those with no previous experience archiving collections of language materials.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">The course material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS-1653380 (Susan S. Kung and Anthony C. Woodbury, PIs; September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2020). The course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license,<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" data-outlook-id="50df2117-8bd1-4479-ae73-3e537322c061" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" data-outlook-id="8c4f2230-a18f-4a4c-860a-dbd6bcdd8cc8" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">The first version of the course will continue to be available at the legacy Teachable site<a href="https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/" data-outlook-id="448c774c-4338-486e-9c66-661f51aad49b" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/" data-outlook-id="012d8deb-da4e-46b1-b497-d92bfbd881f8" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> through 31 August 2027, though this site will not be updated. The Teachable site will be discontinued on 1 September 2027.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">This textbook is currently only available in English. Spanish and Portuguese versions will be added to the website at<a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="a28a0c13-7ac6-4372-a9cc-e98941a08985" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/" data-outlook-id="9b6a5356-78af-4e0c-96b8-9df5f79c99b9" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> as they become available.</span></p><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-transform: none;"><br></span></div><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">Please share this news with your networks.</span></p><p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"> </span></p><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kind regards,</div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b>SUSAN KUNG, PhD,</b> Coordinator, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) | </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://www.ailla.utexas.org/" title="https://www.ailla.utexas.org/" data-outlook-id="69d046de-8a69-4d8c-acf0-cbcb54aa8b55" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>ailla.utexas.org</u></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: rgb(191, 87, 0);">The University of Texas at Austin </span><span style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127);">| LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections | 512-495-4604 | </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://libcal.lib.utexas.edu/appointments/AILLA" data-outlook-id="5e32f898-ccc4-4689-905e-f2130c49a435" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Schedule a meeting with me</u></a></span></div></div></body></html>