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SI 602: Special Topics: Practical Engagement Workshop in Digital Preservation
This course is part of the development of the Preservation of Information specialization. Over the past year, one of the great needs of the specialization has been to develop a broader range of internships, particularly digital preservation internships, for SI master's students. This course addresses this need as part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant, "Engaging Communities to Foster Internships for Preservation and Digital Curation," which enables SI to develop different types of internships for its students. One goal of the course is to develop a large pool of digital preservation internship sites that will continue beyond the three-year IMLS grant.
This course supports two types of internships by creating both intellectual scaffolding and practical guidance about working in organizations with established, nascent, or nonexisting digital preservation programs. The course draws from two student populations: 10 summer interns funded by the IMLS grant and 15-25 semester-long interns.
First, the course helps prepare the 10 summer interns who are funded by the IMLS grant to work in a variety of organizations (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 Library, and the Internet Archive). Summer Interns take this course and receive summer internship credits in the fall through SI 681.
Second, the course supports the semester-long interns who work locally. The course structure enables SI to offer internships in a broader range of local institutions with limited digital preservation expertise since the instructor acts as a co-mentor with the onsite supervisor. Students taking this course receive internship credit by taking 1.5 credits of SI 690 concurrently with this course.
The figure below demonstrates the relationship between this course (yellow), the two types of Internships, and the PEP courses (blue).
Credits: 1.5
Term offered: Winter
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