"This was one of the most beneficial experiences I’ve had at UCSC."
– Katie Ligmond, Ph.D. Candidate in Visual Studies, 2021 CART alum
The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) provides hands-on archival research experience for graduate students at UC Santa Cruz, while making Special Collections & Archives materials more readily available for all. Students in CART gain practical work experience in a library and archives setting, help make archival collections available to researchers, and enhance their own skills in conducting primary source research and curating public exhibitions.
Who will my gift impact?
Your gift will help pay graduate students for their work in organizing, describing, and preserving archival collections, and in curating public exhibitions of our collections. You will give graduate students hands-on experience, and provide students, faculty, and other researchers with access to the archival materials in the University Library the grad students have curated.
How will my gift support CART?
Your gift will allow us to hire and pay graduate students at a rate competitive with other campus employment. CART seeks to expand its impact by immersing students more fully into archival processing work, research, and curation. Your gift will help students devote more time to this important work throughout the academic year.
What do CART students create?
Graduate students in CART usually complete and publish a collection guide for an archival collection that they have organized, described, and preserved, as well as a physical exhibition of the collection that is on public display in McHenry Library for six months. During the pandemic, when hands-on, in-person opportunities were limited, CART students researched collections virtually through our Digital Collections site and our collection guides, and created unique digital projects that showcased their research and highlights of the University Library’s collections.
Some of those digital projects include:
- "See you when I see you...": Black Student Life at UCSC, 1965-present by Jazmin Benton
- More than their Labor: Sites of Manong Labor and Leisure in the Pajaro Valley by Christina Ayson Plank, Digital Archive Co-Director of the Watsonville is in the Heart initiative
- Echoes of Seema: a creative rearrangement of the Sara Halprin interviews of Seema Weatherwax collection by Brock Stuessi
We invite you to expand the impact on graduate student success in the archives by giving to the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Fund.
