Organization
Italian Cultural Centre
Address
3075 Slocan Street
Vancouver, BC, V5M 3E4
Canada
Supervising Librarian/Archivist
Name: Angela Clarke and Alissa Cherry
Email: angelac@iccvancouver.ca
Purpose of the project:
The purpose of the project is to undertake a preliminary organization as well as the arranging and describing of the archive space at the Italian Cultural Centre.
The Italian Cultural Centre has a small archive space which needs to be organized. As well, there needs to be a plan created to arrange, describe and digitize the collection. There are photos, archival documents, ledgers, newspapers and newsletters as well as material culture objects. The collection was brought together c. 2009. Some of the collection has been catalogued but not all of it. What has been catalogued has been insufficient. A plan needs to be created for undertaking the digitization and recataloguing of the collection.
Summary of activities required to carry out the project:
- Organization of the storage
- The beginning of a plan to digitize
- Photography
- A plan for how much can be catalogued and digitized in a period of the internship
- A decision on the catalogue program utilized
- Working with the Museum Curator to develop a plan. Possibly a 5-year plan to catalogue the collection
Expectations of the end result of the project, for both host and student:
It would be an idea to create a standing project with the library school over the next 5 years to have an intern working on this project for 4 months at a time.
Each intern would have a very specific goal such as cataloguing, arranging and describing one shelf at a time. Also, the student could catalogue the items based on their specialization: material culture, photographs, documents, community newsletters.
The items would be photographed and uploaded onto an accessible database.
Time periods in which the project could be supervised:
- Winter Term 1 (September – December)
- Winter Term 2 (January – April)
- Summer Session, Term 1 (May – June)
- Summer Session, Term 2 (July – August)
Is there a deadline by which the project must be completed?
It would be a longstanding project for over 5 years.
Considering the project requirements, please suggest suitable coursework as pre-requisite or co-requisite:
- ARST core courses.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.