Fwd: HBCU Radio Preservation Project - Archival Fellow

[Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina]

Hi again, all! Hopefully you've seen last night's newsletter. Even since then, we've had another opportunity come through. If you know recent graduates of MLS or similar programs, especially from HBCUs, please share with them and other lists!

The HBCU Radio Preservation Project is looking for an archival fellow! Eligibility includes:

• The ability to travel as needed during the full duration of the fellowship.
• Recent graduation from an accredited MLS or equivalent graduate program.
• HBCU graduates will receive special consideration.
• Eligibility to work in the United States.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Self-directed, work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work independently; ability to take direction; willingness to ask questions.
• Team orientation.

The position is a one-year, full-time, grant-funded fellowship. Compensation is $45,000 annually and offers health and wellness benefits. This may be a remote position. Position commences January 1 and runs through December 31.

‼️Applications are due November 17.

Please see more context and details in the forwarded message.

Thanks to Phyllis Jeffers-Coly for sharing and Andre Vann at NCCU for telling Phyllis about the DHC-NC.

Take care,

Rhea

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From: Phyllis Jeffers-Coly <pjeffe...@wyso.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:02 AM
Subject: HBCU Radio Preservation Project - Archival Fellow
To: <dhcol...@gmail.com>

Greetings.

I am writing on behalf of the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, which is dedicated to preserving and honoring the rich cultural resource that is HBCU radio, historically, in the present, and beyond. Funded previously with support from the National Recording Preservation Foundation (2019) and the Mellon Foundation (2021 - present) in partnership with Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), the HBCU Radio Preservation Project has begun providing audio and digital preservation training, disaster planning, reformatting, collection assessment, and other support to the participants. In fact, ECSU is one of the first institutions we have had the opportunity to engage. Ultimately, the overarching goal of the ongoing project is to foster an ethos of preservation at HBCU radio stations in concert with the institutional archives on their campuses.

As we move toward full project implementation in 2023 and beyond, subsequent phases will include: (1) education and training, in which post-grad fellows and graduate interns are afforded early career work experiences supervised by the project’s roving archivist; (2) multi-platform learning experiences including NEDCC-led courses/workshops in audio preservation, digital preservation, disaster preparedness and WYSO-led training in oral history and using historical media in content creation; (3) preservation, which includes collections assessments performed by the roving field archivist and also reformatting historical media, with access made possible through the American Archive of Public Broadcast (AAPB); and (4) public history praxis, including an oral history project, an annual symposium held on a different HBCU campus each year, and multiple seasons of a 6-episode podcast featuring interviews, oral histories, and reformatted media.

Thus, we are currently recruiting an archival fellow for the Project.  We hope that you might share this opportunity with within the NC Digital Humanities communities.  

Thank you. 

Phyllis 

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Phyllis Jeffers-Coly

Assistant Director

HBCU Radio Preservation Project

937-342-2906

pjeffe...@wyso.org