Digital Oral History Archivist Internships and Apprenticeships

FAIN: PE-290185-23

1947 Partition Archive, The (Berkeley, CA 94703-2715)
Karyn Bellamy-Dagneau (Project Director: May 2022 to January 2024)
Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Project Director: January 2024 to present)

Enhancement of an established internship program to include 12 six-month internships and two full-year apprenticeships for Library and Information Studies students and recent graduates, that would train students in cloud-based digital archiving practice as well as the ethics and best practices for culturally conscious collecting and handling of materials from conflict zones.

The 1947 Partition Archive’s (hereafter “PA”) seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (hereafter “NEH”) in the amount of $298,437 for enhancing an existing ten-year-old Digital Oral History Archivist (hereafter “DOHA”) student internships and apprenticeships program that provides hands-on digital archiving experience to college students, recent graduates and graduate students. The proposed enhancements to our existing volunteer-based DOHA program will support and encourage participation from underrepresented minority South Asian American Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Dalit backgrounds, among others, via: 1) Six part six-month long paid internships per year over a period of two years that introduce aspiring students to the Library and Information Sciences (LIS). Specifically students will gain experience in digital archiving through a series of introductory lectures by experts and hands-on experience in cloud-based cataloging, handling and preservation of born-digital m