Securing staff to support two humanities archival outreach projects at Dickinson College during Covid-19

FAIN: PB-275217-20

Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA 17013-2896)
James W. Gerencser (Project Director: May 2020 to January 2023)

The retention of one full-time project archivist and two consultants at the Archives and Special Collections Department of Dickinson College to catalog and provide online access to documentation related to two different collections: those of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) and the LGBTQ History Project of greater Pennsylvania.

Funding is requested for two Archives projects to make unique humanities resources more discoverable and easily accessible: a.) hiring staff to process donated collections of personal papers reflecting the experiences and activism of the LGBT community of the greater central Pennsylvania region, and then digitizing select materials from those collections to share freely online, and b.) employing consultants to craft descriptive metadata and upload previously-digitized historic content to an open online resource related to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918).