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Arte Público Press, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and US Latino Digital Humanities Center welcomed 14 summer students this year from the University of Houston (UH), Rice University, Harvard Divinity School, University of St. Thomas and Houston Community College. These interns joined 6 UH Graduate Research Assistants, for a total of 20 students.
These interns and fellows had the opportunity to work closely with archival texts, such as periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, albums, correspondence, books, ephemera and other documents. In doing so, they gained valuable experience with archival collections and asset management. The organization provided training in digital tools and students contributed to digital humanities data and projects. This summer they gained a wide variety of skills, such as:
- Scanning of archival items
- Microfilm scanning
- Handling and preserving archival texts
- Inventory of primary documents
- Organizing collections
- Creating finding aids
- Curating exhibits
- Database research
- Primary document research
- Asset management
- Data management (with spreadsheets)
- Metadata creation
- Metadata translation
- Familiarity with Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Digital tools
- Archival theory
- Digital humanities theory
- Public writing (Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage blog)
Support for these internships came from the Mellon Foundation, LULAC Council 60, SERJobs Bank of America Summer Youth Program, Office of Ministry Studies (OMS) Field Education Program at Harvard Divinity School, Rice University’s Leadership Rice Mentorship Experience (LRME), Mellon Mays Fellow at Rice University and UH’s Summer Internship in Public History and Digital Humanities (SIPHDH).
Interns work in Arte Público’s marketing department as volunteers or for class credit. Students are responsible for negotiating the possibility of class credit with their university/professor.
Tasks may include the following:
- Proofing press releases, catalogs, and e-blasts
- Preparing metadata for new titles
- Preparing metadata for eBooks
- Reviewing eBook files
- Updating APP website
- Creating social media images
- Brainstorming subject lines and headlines for e-blasts and press releases
- Researching and updating addresses for contacts in database of 30,000 confirmed and prospective customers
- Saving reviews and other publicity
- Mailing review copies
- Resizing cover images
Arte Público Press is the nation’s largest and most established publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic authors. Its imprint for children and young adults, Piñata Books, is dedicated to the authentic portrayal of the themes, languages, characters and customs of Hispanic culture in the United States. Books published under the imprint serve as a bridge connecting home and school to support family literacy and elementary education. Based at the University of Houston, Arte Público Press, Piñata Books and the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage project provide the most widely recognized and extensive showcase for Latino literary arts and creativity.
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) is an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1980. The program has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos. The holdings available at the project include thousands of original books, manuscripts, archival items and ephemera, a microfilm collection of approximately 1,400 historical newspapers, hundreds of thousands of microfilmed and digitized items, a vast collection of photographs, an extensive authority list and personal papers. In addition, the program has published or reprinted more than 40 historical books, two anthologies and nine volumes of research articles. The program organizes a biennial international conference and has some five thousand affiliated scholars, librarians and archivists. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is the premier center for research on Latino documentary history in the United States.
The US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy that has been lost, absent, repressed or underrepresented. The USLDH Center provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using a vast collection of newspapers, photographs and digital materials; creates opportunities and facilities for digital publication of Latino-based projects and scholarship; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; provides a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to Latino digital humanities; and establishes a Latino digital humanities hub.
Read about our 2024 interns here: https://artepublicopress.com/meet-our-2024-summer-interns/
If you are interested in supporting an internship for the fall, spring or summer, please contact us at apprec@central.uh.edu. Your donation is tax deductible.
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