UT’s School of Information is pleased to announce its participation in a project just funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to develop a model internship program for placing Library and Information Science Masters students as interns in working digital humanities centers. The participants, which include the Information Schools at UT, the University of Maryland, and the University of Michigan, as well as Maryland’s MITH, Nebraska's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, and Michigan State's MATRIX, will also work to develop a collaborative research program that draws on complementary areas of expertise and interest in the digital humanities and information studies.

Dr. Patricia Galloway, Associate Professor in the UT School of Information, is the UT co-PI for the three-year, $590,000 award, which will provide students in the School with internship opportunities in the digital humanities, creating a bridge between their graduate studies and work in the cultural heritage sector.

The funded planning stage for the project begins this fall, with the first two of a total of six internships available to School of Information students in summer 2009. For more information please contact Dr. Patricia Galloway, galloway@ischool.utexas.edu.