The 1947 Partition Archive

The 1947 Partition Archive will pilot the Digital Oral History Archivist student fellowship program to introduce high school and college students—particularly those from South Asian American backgrounds—to the field of community-based archives through a series of lectures and hands-on experiences. The project team will develop and execute fellowship cycles that introduce students to cataloging, handling, and preservation techniques used to archive conflict-zone community-sourced digital archives, as well as the concepts of community archives, democratic heritage documentation, geotagging across politically unstable regions, ethical considerations for sensitive collections, digital humanities, and oral history. Staff will share findings from this project via conferences and journals, and the project will introduce students to the field of library and information science while simultaneously increasing the discoverability and access to one of only two major South Asian American community archives in the United States.