Cornell University Library

In collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Cornell University Library will offer a program of internship in preservation management and practice designed to build a preservation infrastructure within tribal colleges and universities throughout the country. Cornell will train 12 qualified Native Americans to help establish and maintain preservation programs in institutions within their regions. The program will prepare the interns to train other librarians, archivists, and technicians in preservation basics through workshops, seminars, on-site surveys, simulations, needs assessments, and the establishment of a regional disaster plan and response capability. This training will enable Native American tribal colleges to greatly extend the life of their cultural heritage materials, to conduct studies of their collections and services, and to prepare viable proposals for external grant funding to support Native American collections.