Curating Community Digital Collections: applications due February 28

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Emily Pfotenhauer (emily@wils.org)
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From: Emily Pfotenhauer <emily@wils.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:45:45 -0600
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Subject: Curating Community Digital Collections: applications due February 28

There's still time for your historical society or museum to apply to be part of the Summer 2018 Curating Community Digital Collections cohort. Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), sponsored by Recollection Wisconsin and supported by an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, is an initiative to provide information school graduate students with hands-on experience in digital preservation through summer fieldwork positions at small and under-resourced libraries and cultural heritage institutions across Wisconsin.

Through a competitive application process, six Wisconsin libraries, archives, historical societies and museums will be selected to host students in Summer 2018. Applications are due *February 28, 2018*.

Each host organization will be matched with a graduate student from UW-Madison’s iSchool or the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Stud ies. Each student-host team will receive training and mentoring in digital preservation and will work together to organize, store and manage existing digitized resources or born-digital content. Projects might include activities such as creating an inventory of digital content, assessing storage needs, moving files to stable long-term storage, developing a digital preservation plan, or standardizing and enhancing existing metadata. Projects should not include supporting new or ongoing scanning/reformatting efforts.

For more information about the program, or to apply to host a student, please see http://recollectionwisconsin.org/digipres.

Emily Pfotenhauer Community Liaison & Service Specialist, WiLS 608-616-9756 emily@wils.org



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