LA as Subject Digitization Residency and Training Program

University of Southern California Libraries (USC); Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH); Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge (CSUN); and the Autry Museum of the American West (Autry) respectfully request $649,640 in IMLS support for the L.A. as Subject Digital Residency and Training Program, a 3-year Continuing Education project under the Curating Collections category and the Project Grant funding category. Our proposed residency and training program will transfer critical skills for building digital library collections based on community archives. We will provide $276,139 of in-kind support for the program, which will provide training, mentoring, and hands-on learning related to digital collections management to 150 staff and volunteers at 30 community archives in the L.A. as Subject (LAAS) research alliance and 3 digital collections residents who will be recent MLIS graduates.