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Yakel IMLS grant project fosters digital preservation education and internships
(Jun 2008) Associate Professor Elizabeth Yakel will head a multi-institution grant project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out "Engaging Communities to Foster Internships for Preservation and Digital Curation."
The project supports the new Preservation of Information specialization at the School of Information and seeks to address the growing need for more professionals to manage and preserve the nation's ever-increasing amounts of digital information. The grant will provide support for 30 digital curation/preservation administration summer internships for master's students over three years as well as 45 term-long internships in the Ann Arbor area.
"There have been few opportunities for internships in preservation, particularly digital preservation," Yakel notes. "This grant promises to expand these opportunities as well as enhance the synergy between SI students' academic and internship experiences in order to prepare the next generation of leaders in this area."
The IMLS in Washington, D.C., awarded the University of Michigan a $631,816 grant. Internship host sites include the Center for Research Libraries, the Florida Center for Library Automation, the LOCKSS program at Stanford University, the Northeast Document Conservation Center, OCLC, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the Safe Sound Archive, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the University of Michigan Libraries, and the Internet Archive.
Yakel's grant, which includes Associate Professor Paul Conway on the project team, also involves curriculum development to encourage the ongoing exchange of ideas between real-world practice and the classroom.
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