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Using donations and endowments, the Friends purchases collections, funds conservation work, implements public programming and sponsors staff education and professional development.
The Friends of the Archives (FOA) supports the State Archives of North Carolina (SANC) and its efforts to promote equity in its access and collections process.
Racial discrimination must be eliminated through more careful archival practices such as conscious description, more visible promotion of materials related to the lives of the enslaved, and building a more inclusive community. We will work with the State Archives to create a more inclusive documentary heritage that’s reflective of all North Carolinians.
The Friends of the Archives contributes to the collecting efforts of the State Archives by funding the select acquisition of collections that would otherwise be unable to be acquired by the State Archives as a government agency. The Friends have funded culturally-significant collections which have enhanced and complemented the State Archives holdings to benefit the research options for the public.
FOA donations support the State Archives of North Carolina in several ways: preservation and conservation of our documents; purchase of photos and documents to add to Special Collections; and paid internships which allow the next generation archivists to have hands on experience.
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and improve conditions. Your generous donation will fund our mission.
My name is Alison Schaefer and I’m the summer 2025 FOA Conservation Intern at the State Archives of North Carolina. I’m currently a student at the North Bennet Street School in Boston studying bookbinding and book and paper conservation. I came to the Archives to gain experience with the real-world conservation of archival materials as I work toward my goal of becoming a conservation professional. I've spent the last several weeks in the Archives' lab building custom enclosures for collection items and performing conservation treatments under the supervision of the lab’s staff. My primary assignment this summer was to build new housing for several objects from the Archives’ Vault Collection. I was able to expand my knowledge of archival housing and build several new and exciting enclosures for this historic collection.
Hello, my name is Clara Booker. I am presently a dual-degree student pursuing my Masters of Public History and Library and Information Science at NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, respectively. This summer, as a Friends of the Archives (FOA) intern at the State Records Center (SRC), I am arranging and describing the Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINC) record group which has sat unprocessed since the late 1970s. LINC was an important quasi-state agency in the 1970s which spearheaded experimental educational initiatives, for example, HeadStart, the Carolina Boys Camp, and the Child Advocacy Support Program. In the past 6 weeks I have surveyed, appraised, arranged, and redacted records on the Carolina Boys Camp.
I chose to intern at the SRC because of my passion for archives and government records. After serving as a data steward for the U.S. Geological Survey and a library assistant for Arlington County Public Libraries, I wanted hands-on experience processing archival materials. As an emerging public historian, the FOA internship has provided me the opportunity to put into practice the theory I studied in my first year of graduate school.
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