Yale, Emory, and Harvard Collaborate with Nation’s Largest African American Video Oral History Archive to Offer Visiting Minority Archival Fellowship
In 2009, The HistoryMakers,
the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive was awarded an IMLS
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant # RE-06-10-0080 entitled Increasing
African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers Fellowship,
Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute. Twelve archivists were selected
and trained over a two year period and placed in African American archives
across the country.
In 2016, the work begun under The
HistoryMakers Institute will continue in a new collaboration with Yale
University’s Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Library, Emory University’s Stuart
A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library, and The Harvard
Library’s Schlesinger Library at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Yale University and Harvard
University will each appoint a year-long visiting archivist, and Emory University
will appoint a two-year visiting archivist – all of whom will have recently
received an MLS, and will start in their position by September 1, 2016.
The HistoryMakers will continue to
serve as a consultant to the project and serve on the Institute’s Advisory
Board. The goal is to provide professional post graduate training in a
respected archive with rich African American archival holdings. Each fellowship
is being funded by the host institution. Archivists will be able to apply in
spring of 2016 for consideration at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Library, Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Rare Books
and Rare Book Library, and The Harvard Library’s Schlesinger Library at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Over time, it is expected that more institutions will be recruited
to participate in this program whose goal is to increase the number of
archivists from underserved populations.
The purpose of the 2016 Minority Archival Fellowship is to:
1)
Provide a meaningful and valuable post-masters training experience
that incorporates an intensive training program at a world-class university
archive, including professional development, presentation at academic
conferences, and interaction with lesser-known African American collections
around the country;
2)
Encourage the inclusion of minority archivists and recent MLIS
graduates in the field of archives management;
3)
Encourage the fellows to engage in outreach activities in the
community.
4)
Build and support a network of people committed to the same goal
of increasing diversity in the profession.
The 2016 Visiting Minority Archival Fellows will:
1.
Increase skills preserving and providing increased access to an
African American archival collection.
2.
Demonstrate increased knowledge of the nation’s African American
archival collections.
3.
Demonstrate increased knowledge of African American history and
culture broadly and as it relates to special collections of African American
archival collections.
4.
Reported increase in marketability and employability as an
archivist.
2016-2018 Fellows:
Yale University - Afua Ferdnance
Harvard University - Jehan Sinclair
Emory University - Charmaine Bonner
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