Center for Archival Research and Training (CART)

Fellows in the Center for Archival Research and Training are immersed in the work of the Special Collections & Archives department of the UCSC University Library, usually in service of making archival collections accessible to the public through arrangement, description, and the creation of collection guides. Another main component of the CART fellowship is creating an exhibition project to showcase the work the fellow has done on the collection, and also promote the discovery of the collection to researchers.

Archival Processing

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Each CART fellow arranges, describes, preserves, and provides access to unprocessed archival collections in the UCSC Special Collections & Archives. Fellows are trained by a professional archivist in established standards of processing, and follow the Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries.

Tasks include:

conducting a survey of unprocessed materials
re-housing materials and making preservation recommendations
writing content descriptions of the materials in the collection
writing biographies and historical notes to provide contextual information on the creator of the materials
creating a public collection guide

Exhibition Curation

Each year, CART fellows curate a public exhibition of materials from the collections they processed. This is an opportunity for fellows to delve deeper into their own research interests with the collections, collaborate other with fellows, develop exhibition curation skills, and write for a public audience.

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Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.