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<p class="MsoNormal">Passing along on behalf of Archive-It<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The </span><a href="https://archive.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Internet Archive</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, with generous support
from </span><a href="https://mellon.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, invites public libraries in the United States and cultural heritage
organizations in U.S. territories to apply to join its </span><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2020/12/15/seeking-public-library-participants-for-community-history-web-archiving-program/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Community
History Web Archiving program</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bit.ly/community-webs"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Apply</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> by January 31st, 2021</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
to join a diverse network of 150+ public libraries and librarians who are...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>...Documenting local history by saving web-published sites, stories and community engagement on the web.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>...Growing their professional skills and increasing institutional technical capacity by engaging in a supportive network of peer organizations pursuing this work.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>...Building a public understanding of web archiving as a practice and its importance to preserving 21st century community history and underrepresented voices.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Current Community Webs cohort members have created nearly 300 publicly available local history web archive collections, including: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">28 Community Webs members have created collections related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s “<a href="https://archive-it.org/collections/13918"><span style="color:#1155CC">Novel
Coronavirus COVID-19</span></a>” collection which focuses on “the African diasporan experiences of COVID-19 including racial disparities in health outcomes and access, the impact on Black-owned businesses, and cultural production.”<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kansas City Public Library has created an “<a href="https://archive-it.org/collections/9945"><span style="color:#1155CC">Arts & Culture</span></a>” collection documenting “Kansas City's thriving Arts community.”<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sonoma County Public Library’s “<a href="https://archive-it.org/collections/9742"><span style="color:#1155CC">North Bay Fires, 2017</span></a>” collection documenting when “devastating firestorms swept through Sonoma,
Napa, and Mendocino Counties” and part of their “<a href="https://sonomalibrary.org/sonoma-responds-community-archive"><span style="color:#1155CC">Sonoma Responds: Community Memory Archive</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Benefits of participation in Community Webs include:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A three-year subscription to the Archive-It web archiving service. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Funding to support </span>local outreach, public programming, and community collaborations as well as<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> travel to a full-day Community Webs National Symposium (projected
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Membership in an active and diverse community of public librarians across the country. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Options to increase access (and discoverability) to collections via hubs, such as DPLA.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bit.ly/community-webs"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Apply</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> any time before 11:59PM Eastern on January 31st, 2021 </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please feel free to contact
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