Traveling Archivist Program The Traveling Archivist Program (TAP) began with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and is administered by the State Archives of North Carolina. The purpose of TAP is to help repositories improve preservation and access for archival collections. Repositories include historical and genealogical societies; public libraries; the archives of colleges, hospitals, and other organizations; historic houses and sites, museums; and other publicly accessible institutions with materials documenting history and culture. TAP 2021 Preserving and Sharing Community Histories Online Five or more organizations will be selected through an application process to receive onsite consultations and training, culminating in the physical and intellectual preparation of a collection at each to be scanned by DigitalNC. A team of experts from the State Archives with partners from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNC-G), and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center will serve the selected organizations and assist them in promoting the newly digitized collections. Application Instructions Get Ready! Identify an archival collection within your organization’s larger holdings to focus the TAP team’s digitization and promotion efforts. In addition to institutional and personal contact information, please gather the following information: size of the collection and amount of necessary storage space type of documents or other formats its significance for N.C. (or beyond) history annual budget and funding sources for its management and care whether collections management policies currently exist and which types current condition and preservation needs environmental conditions for storage and/ or display proportion available for online access (if any) previous efforts to promote (if any) Get Set! Review the TAPplication 2021 guidelines linked below and expect up to 20 minutes to complete the online application. Go! Apply here by January 31, 2021. TAP Documents: General Information TAPplication 2021 guidelines List of questions to help prepare for TAPplication 2021 For additional information about TAP, please contact Adrienne Berney, (919) 814-6863. Support for this site was provided by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Traveling Archivist Program The Traveling Archivist Program (TAP) began with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and is administered by the State Archives of North Carolina. The purpose of TAP is to help repositories improve preservation and access for archival collections. Repositories include historical and genealogical societies; public libraries; the archives of colleges, hospitals, and other organizations; historic houses and sites, museums; and other publicly accessible institutions with materials documenting history and culture. TAP 2021 Preserving and Sharing Community Histories Online Five or more organizations will be selected through an application process to receive onsite consultations and training, culminating in the physical and intellectual preparation of a collection at each to be scanned by DigitalNC. A team of experts from the State Archives with partners from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNC-G), and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center will serve the selected organizations and assist them in promoting the newly digitized collections. Application Instructions Get Ready! Identify an archival collection within your organization’s larger holdings to focus the TAP team’s digitization and promotion efforts. In addition to institutional and personal contact information, please gather the following information: size of the collection and amount of necessary storage space type of documents or other formats its significance for N.C. (or beyond) history annual budget and funding sources for its management and care whether collections management policies currently exist and which types current condition and preservation needs environmental conditions for storage and/ or display proportion available for online access (if any) previous efforts to promote (if any) Get Set! Review the TAPplication 2021 guidelines linked below and expect up to 20 minutes to complete the online application. Go! Apply here by January 31, 2021. TAP Documents: General Information TAPplication 2021 guidelines List of questions to help prepare for TAPplication 2021 For additional information about TAP, please contact Adrienne Berney, (919) 814-6863. Support for this site was provided by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
