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Reparative Description Grant

Call for applications: Pilot program for Maturity Model for Archival Reparative Description

Is your community, corporate, or government archives engaged in reparative description work? Do you believe your institution would benefit from piloting a new organizational evaluation tool, the Maturity Model for Reparative Description (MMRD)? The SAA Foundation has given us a grant to test and improve the MMRD through work with 5 archives. We are offering each participant a $500 consultation fee, payable to an individual or an institution, to collaborate in piloting the tool in their institutional context. If you are selected, participation in this initiative will involve an online introductory meeting and planning session with us (the MMRD authors), a period of institutional self-evaluation of your own practices with the tool, and a follow-up interview to provide feedback on the MMRD. The pilot program will occur between August and October 2024. If you are interested, please fill out an application of interest by July 19.

Apply here by July 19.

Please send any questions to: sharon@sharonmizota.com.

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Volunteer Opportunity

KEXP is recruiting library assistant volunteers! This is a great opportunity for students who are interested in exploring library work. The application closes June 11. Apply here!

About the volunteer position: The KEXP library of CDs contains tens of thousands of titles and is in need of some tender loving care, the kind it hasn’t seen since this library of CDs was digitized and placed into KEXPs digital library 10 years ago. This library volunteer will be helping to organize, inventory, and shelve a variety of physical media to bring the library up to date. Examples of specific projects include: Inventorying CDs, researching library collections, shelving new additions or replacing CDs currently on the shelves. 

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Exciting Opportunities for Archivists and Grad Students in the Northwest!

🔍 Are you a grad student passionate about archives? Explore your career with NWA’s Student at Large scholarship – $500 for up to four students. Apply by March 1. Details: [Link]

📚 Archivist seeking professional development? Apply for the $500 Professional Development Scholarship by March 1. Up to four scholarships available. Details: [Link]

🌐 Want to bring archival education to your region? The Continuing Education Fund offers $500 per state (WA, OR, AK, MT, and ID). Apply by March 1. Details: [Link]

Seize these opportunities to enhance your archival journey. Apply now!

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Ongoing Clean up Effort: Seattle Betsuin Temple

Photo of Betsuin Temple by David Koch, HistoryLink.tours.

On December 31, 2023, an intruder broke into the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple and committed arson in the archival storage area of the basement, resulting in considerable fire and water damage to the Temple archives. Thousands of archival records and artifacts were damaged.

The restoration work is still ongoing, and Arson Restoration Project Committee (ARPC) has set up a webpage for donations. The Seattle archival community has pitched in to volunteer time, expertise and resources to ensure that the temple’s historically valuable materials are not lost.

On November 15, 1901, Rev. Kakuryo Nishijima performed the first Jodo Shinshu Buddhist service in the Pacific Northwest. This event marked the establishment of the temple. On October 4, 1941, the current temple complex was dedicated, and in 1986, the temple was included as part of the Chinatown historic district in Seattle, which is registered in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Betsuin Temple is an important part of Seattle and King County history, providing Buddhist education and documenting the history of the Japanese and Asian communities in the International District of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Images of arson damage at the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple.