by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
The Internet Archive is accepting applications from public librarians for a funded program of continuing education, training, and services in the field of web archiving. Applications are due on Friday, August 25, 2017.
The Internet Archive is accepting applications from public librarians for a funded program of continuing education, training, and services in the field of web archiving. Applications are due on Friday, August 25, 2017.
Scope
A two year IMLS funded program to provide education, applied training, cohort support, and web archiving services for public librarians to develop expertise in web archiving. The project will preserve over 35 terabytes of community heritage materials for long-term access, create open educational resources relating to web archiving and digital preservation and explore new forms of local engagement and partnerships through public programming support.
Resources
Each library will receive the equivalent of $25,000 in web archiving services, equaling a 0.50 TB archival data budget per year for five years (extending beyond the two years of this project) to build local history web archive collections. This includes access to and training on the Archive-It web application. Each librarian will also receive $3,500 per year to attend cohort meetings, participate in training, conferences and professional development, and local events.
What Does Participation Look Like?
- Project activities averaging 2 hours a week in staff time
- Six project-related virtual trainings (spread over 2 years)
- In-person cohort meetings (1 per year; costs covered per above)
- Attendance at a local/regional conference to speak on or promote the project (1 per year; costs covered per above)
- Opportunities to contribute to documentary materials and publish on outcomes (such as blogging or writing case studies)
- Participate in a cohort community via online forum, feedback, etc.
Learn more and apply here: https://archive-it.org/blog/projects/community-webs
