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Center for Primary Research and Training

Learn about the UCLA Center for Primary Research and Training Fellowship Program, where graduate students gain archival training, work with unique manuscript collections, and conduct research at their home institution. Discover the diverse projects completed, from cuneiform tablets to historical texts. Join a community that values special collections and archives.

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Center for Primary Research and Training

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  1. Center for Primary Research and Training Kelley Wolfe BachliDepartment of Special CollectionsYoung Research LibraryUCLA Library

  2. UCLA Department of Special Collections

  3. Center for Primary Research and Training

  4. Manuscript Collections on the OAC

  5. Processing – Students – Community

  6. Departments Represented • Architecture and Urban Design • Comparative Literature • English • Film, Television, Digital Media • History • Information Studies • Islamic Studies • Latin American Studies • Moving Image Archive Studies • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures • Political Science • Public Policy

  7. Matching Students with Collections

  8. CFPRT Fellowship Facts • Graduate students who have been Center Fellows: 71 • Manuscript projects completed: 143 • Total linear feet processed: 1024 (2,048 document boxes), plus 72 oversize boxes • Books and bound manuscripts cataloged: over 1000

  9. The Student Experience • Experience working with primary resources • Enables research at their home institution • Gain archival training • Enriches subject knowledge • Appreciation for special collections and archives • And they get paid!

  10. Cuneiform Tablet Collection School text, literary exercise of "Inanna and Mt. Ebih” • She bedecked her forehead with terror and fearsome radiance. • She arranged cornelian rosettes around her holy throat. • She brandished the 7-headed weapon vigorously to her right. • and placed straps of lapis lazuli on her feet.

  11. UCLA Community & beyond The word is out… • Who we are • Materials we have in their discipline • Students, faculty, and librarians are our best sales persons • Similar programs developed at the Huntington Library, Columbia University, John Hopkins, University of Chicago, all funded by Mellon Foundation

  12. Ordenanzas del Baratillo de Mexico, 1736, anonymous

  13. Questions? Please contact me! Kelley Bachli kbachli@library.ucla.edu

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