The second part of Increasing African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute, takes the form of a 9-month residency completed at one of The HistoryMakers’ partnering host institutions. Fellows arrive at their host institution in the beginning of September and remain until June.

Below is a list of participating host repositories and their fellows for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 programs.

During the on-site residency period, fellows utilize knowledge and skills gained during the summer immersion training to process African American collections at their host repository. Fellows are required to organize at least one public program and one community outreach event (lecture, exhibit, etc.) and implement social media and/or other online resources, in accordance with their residency plans, which are developed in collaboration with their host repository during the Summer Immersion Program. Fellows are also expected to give presentations on their education and career choice to other students at the high school and undergraduate levels. Fellows are required to maintain a blog, including weekly blog entries of their experiences and progress throughout the fellowship. Fellows also prepare a poster presentation and/or panel entry for the SAA Annual Conference and are strongly encouraged to submit papers for presentation as a participant in a panel at other professional conferences such as ALA, MAC, New England Archivists, MARAC, Society of Southwest Archivists, etc.

To find out more about what The HistoryMakers’ IMLS fellows are doing at their host repositories, please visit The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training, and Placement Institute blog: http://thehistorymakersfellows2011.blogspot.com/