Description
The National Park Service intends to award a single source justified cooperative agreement to the University of Arizona to increase public availability of archives. The project aims to provide an archives-focused educational work experience for archives, library, and digital information students. The students will work on cataloging, preserving, and digitizing archival records, and creating finding aids to promote public access to these collections. The project will be completed over a period of 36 months, from August 1, 2019, to June 30, 2022.
• The project will provide hands-on experience for students in describing and storing resource management records.
• The project will create digital copies of archival records to make them more accessible to the public.
• The project will improve preservation of archival records by reboxing and labeling.
• The project will promote public access to archival information of the National Park Service.