CINDY: This online project focuses on documenting and preserving the personal literacy narratives. In the literacies of communities through project, we describe why first-hand narratives are very useful vehicles for documenting the literacies of a community, and we offer a blueprint for working with community members: helping people record their first-hand accounts about reading and composing, talking about the roles such activities play in their lives, and preserving those narratives in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, the DALN. For the purposes of this iTunes project, we also offer an example: a case study class entitled "The Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus," which was taught at Ohio State University and focused on the literacy practices and values in African-American communities and churches in Columbus Ohio. From 2009 to 2012, this case study course was taught as a second level writing class at Ohio State University, one that was fashioned in collaboration with local leaders, community members, undergraduate and graduate students, and Ohio State University's African and African Studies Community Extension Center. This case study course was designed to document and preserve the literacy narratives of black citizens in Columbus Ohio, stories told in their own words, based on their own experiences and histories, and documented for their own purposes. We think this course offers an example that other communities and groups can explore in preserving their stories. Now the goal of this online project is to encourage other people to take the bones of the course that we've taught at Ohio State University and to modify the framework to suit other community literacy projects, projects that are defined by local interests, local neighborhoods, towns, and communities. We also want to encourage others to use the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives to preserve these literacy stories. Such projects are going to differ widely depending on the local context within which they happen, the needs of the communities of which they are a part. So we encourage you to use your own talents and modify these materials. We encourage individuals to use and modify any of the materials in the project for the purposes of your own projects, attributing this iTunes course appropriately. In this section, we will describe what a literacy narrative is, and we'll provide some examples of such narratives. We'll also talk about the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, the DALN, as a repository for such narratives. We'll also explore the challenges of working with and for community partners. And we'll think about how to prepare volunteers or students to undertake such a project. We'll also discuss the forms and the scheduling and the logistics involved in such a course, and we'll give some hints about uploading literacy narratives to the DALN so they can be preserved for history.