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<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b><i><a href="https://form.jotform.com/243255441503146" title="https://form.jotform.com/243255441503146" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Apply</a> by January 25th!</i></b></span></p>
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Community Webs Michigan Cohort 2025</h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><i>Do you want to preserve and provide access to local history? </i></span></h1>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i>Are you interested in learning about web archiving? </i></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i>Have you ever considered a community archiving project, but don't know where to start? </i></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">If you answered yes to any of these questions, the
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Community Webs Michigan Cohort 2025</a> may be the right learning opportunity for you! The Internet Archive’s
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Community Webs</a> program is partnering with the Library of Michigan to provide tools, support, training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to public libraries, historical societies, museums, community archives, and other cultural heritage
organizations across the state of Michigan who are engaged in preserving and providing access to local history.</span></p>
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About the Community Webs Michigan Cohort Project</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The Library of Michigan is promoting participation in this project to develop a cohort of representatives from cultural heritage organizations across Michigan. This cohort
will complete a training and professional development program focused on preserving and providing access to local history through
<b>web archiving, digital preservation, and community archiving</b>. The program will include asynchronous training and virtual cohort meetings. At the end of the training, participants will begin a web archiving, digital preservation, and/or community archiving
project that they intend to work on for the remainder of the program. They will receive
<b>free</b> access to tools (including the Archive-It web archiving service and Vault digital preservation service), technical support, and mentorship over the course of the project period. The program will culminate in a presentation of the projects in October
2025.</span></p>
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Eligibility</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Any community-focused organization engaged in preserving and providing access to Michigan history is eligible to participate. This may include public libraries, historical
societies, history museums, and community archives. </span></h2>
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Program Timeline</h2>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">December 1, 2024 through January 25, 2025: Application period open</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">February 1, 2025: Accepted applicants are notified</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">February 2025: Cohort Kickoff Meeting and Digital Preservation Training</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">March 2025: Web Archiving Training</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">April 2025: Community Archiving Training</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">May 2025: Individual projects begin</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">May 2025-September 2025: Work on individual projects</div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;">October 2025: Project reporting and showcase</div>
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Application</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">To apply, complete
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this application form</a> by January 25, 2025</span></h2>
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More Information</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">For more information, contact
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communitywebs@archive.org</a></span></h2>
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