Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.

The Dance Heritage Coalition and its many partners across the country will use this grant on a three-year program to provide on-the-job training for 21 students pursuing a master’s degrees in library or information sciences at nationally accredited graduate library programs. Vast stores of historically and culturally valuable material on dance now sit in repositories, unavailable to scholars, dance professionals, and the public because of a shortage of librarians with both the knowledge and the skills to work with them. the program will increase the visibility of and access to historically and culturally valuable material on dance, raise the number of librarians specializing in dance, and provide these 21 students with skills that can be used in all specialties of librarianship.