Digital Humanities and Archival Fellowship
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
Auburn
The Digital Humanities and Archival fellowship at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg
Automobile Museum isdesigned to provide experience and
training in the expanding field of museum digitization, in
archivalcollections management, and in collections
conservation. This twelve month fellowship at the Auburn
CordDuesenberg Automobile Museum provides an opportunity
for the fellow to engage with and learn frommuseum
professionals on staff. The fellow will be fully integrated into the museum's
archival and curatorialdepartments while devoting his or
her time to the museum's digitization and access
project.The individual will work directly with the museum's
Digitization and Access Manager, who will serve as
asupervisor and mentor throughout the term of the
fellowship. The fellow will help to manage, coordinate,and
execute the functions of the digitization and access project. Tasks that will
be performed include:organizing, labeling, and indexing of
physical collections, cataloguing and scanning of physical
collections,coordinating digitization interns and database
entry specialists, editing and quality checking digital
collections, ensuring proper storage and conservation of
archival collections, and finally, executing anyessential
function or task that ensures continuing progress of the museum's digitization
and access project.The fellow will have the opportunity to
oversee the managementand digitization of one of the
museum'sautomotive research collections as a final
experiential project.
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