From: Emily Pfotenhauer <emily@wils.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:45:45 -0600 Message-ID: <CAMtke023A-jCVjg_RWRxjHMOUKp_9AuxAPREekegTrJawqpe-Q@mail.gmail.com> 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