Category: Internships

Paid Internships – LGBTQ Religious Archives Network

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) is offering a thirteen-week (May 23 – August 19, 2021), part-time (10 hours a week), online internship for senior students or graduates seeking to develop skills in teaching with primary sources in LGBTQ religious history. The intern will design a lesson plan for high school history classes that incorporates primary sources to tell the story of LGBTQ movements within all religious traditions. The intern will be responsible to find and use resources from and beyond the LGBTQ-RAN website. The lesson plan will reflect current teaching goals and standards. Interns participate in LGBTQ-RAN staff meetings via videoconference every 2-3 weeks. Interns will provide their own office and equipment needed to carry out their work. Each intern will receive a stipend of $1,500.

The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network ((http://www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/)  is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of LGBTQ religious movements around the world. LGBTQ-RAN has a two-fold basic purpose. First it assists LGBTQ religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories. Secondly, LGBTQ-RAN provides an electronic information clearinghouse for these archival collections and other historical data—such as biographical profiles, oral histories and digital exhibitions—about LGBTQ religious history for the use of historians, researchers and other interested persons.

To apply for an internship, please send cover letter and resume indicating which intern position is of interest and detailing relevant education and experience preferably by April 22, 2022 to: Mark Bowman at mark@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org

Photo Preservation Intern – Wildlife Conservation Society Archives (2 positions available)

wcs logoThe Wildlife Conservation Society Archives is seeking two highly motivated and energetic individuals for a grant-funded paid photographic preservation project internship.

Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society is committed to saving wildlife and wild places worldwide. This initiative is carried out through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Documenting the history of this work, the WCS Archives includes records related to the histories of the Bronx Zoo, the New York Aquarium, international field work projects, and other WCS institutions and activities.

Learning Opportunities and Responsibilities Under guidance from the WCS Institutional Archivist, the Photo Preservation Interns will learn about the care and preservation of photographic negatives. The interns will be trained in the proper handling and rehousing of photographic negatives for their long-term preservation. The internship will take as its focus 12,000 photographic negatives from WCS’s historical photograph collection. These negatives feature images dating from the earliest years of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium, from 1899 to approximately 1930. Approximately one-third of these are glass plate negatives. The training received through the internship will allow the successful interns to clean and rehouse the 12,000 photographic negatives.

The Photo Preservation Interns will each commit to 300 total hours of work onsite at the Bronx Zoo to be performed over 20 weeks, beginning January 25, 2016.

Requirements

  • Enrollment in, or recent completion of, MLIS or similar degree with a concentration in archival studies from an ALA-accredited program, or equivalent graduate degree in Archives
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work both independently and under supervision
  • Demonstrated ability to set priorities and meet strict deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

  • Interest in historical photographic preservation and care
  • Interest in the history of American zoo and aquarium field and/or the history of international wildlife conservation

Compensation

The Photo Preservation Interns will receive a stipend of approximately $5,000 each, less applicable taxes and deductions ($3,875).

Application Instructions

For full consideration, interested individuals should submit a resume and a statement of interest describing what you hope to bring to the internship and gain from the experience.

Please email your cover letter and resume to: Opportunities@wcs.org; specify “Photo Preservation Intern, Spring 2016” in the subject of your email.

Replacement Opportunity – Trinity School – Manhattan

trinitySchoolMy name is Rob Keith and I am an academic technologist at Trinity School in New York City. We have a job / internship opportunity opening in the fall of 2015 for a position of teacher / integrator to cover a 2 month maternity leave for one of our LS technology coordinators.

We’d love to pass this information along to teachers / students, if anyone might be interested. This would be a great opportunity for someone looking for direct experience in this field.

Rob Keith
Trinity School
Lower School Lead Computer Integrationist / Teacher

http://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/page

Summer Paid Internship – Dedicated Library Students – Columbia University

edlabThe EdLab at Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College Columbia University is looking for dedicated library students for a summer internship. As part of a dynamic development, research, publishing, and materials group, you will work to unite traditional library roles and experimental interdisciplinary processes. The EdLab is a unique library that goes beyond content delivery to explore creative production, product management, social media marketing, and digital archiving. We seek interns with a passion for ushering libraries into the future and demonstrated writing ability. Candidates who have or who are pursuing a degree in library sciences strongly preferred. This is a paid position.

Skills:

  • Communicates effectively with excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Demonstrates excellent organizational skills
  • Familiarity with research methods
  • A commitment to the field of education

Please send resume, cover letter, and writing sample to edlabjobs@tc.columbia.edu

Archives Processing Intern – WCS

wcs logoStart Date: May 2015
End Date: August 2015
Schedule: Minimum commitment of 104 hours, between Monday and Friday, 9AM – 5PM

Summary
Under the guidance of the WCS Processing Archivist, the Archives Processing Intern will gain experience in various components of archival processing and description. While WCS Archives internships are unpaid, we are happy to work with academic institutions so that students can get academic credit for their internship. Interns should be able to commit at least 104 hours to the internship and must schedule their hours Monday through Friday, 9-5.

Objectives

Experience to be gained includes but is not limited to:

  • survey, arrange, and describe an archival collection
  • enter data into an archival management systeM
  • create an EAD finding aid and MARC record
  • document work with one or more posts for Wild Things, the WCS Archives Blog

Qualifications

  • enrollment in or recent completion of a graduate program (within the last 6 months) in library science, museum studies, or a related field
  • familiarity with archival theory and descriptive standards ~ previous experience arranging and describing archival collections strongly preferred

Location: Bronx Zoo.  Interested individuals should submit a resume and a statement of interest describing what you hope to bring to the internship and gain from the experience.  Please email your cover letter and resume to: Opportunities@wcs.org; specify “Archives Processing Intern, Summer 2015” in the subject of your email.

EOE, M/F/V/D

EdLab – Future of Libraries Summer (Paid) Internship – Columbia

edlab2The EdLab at Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College Columbia University is looking for dedicated library students for a summer internship. As part of a dynamic development, research, publishing, and materials group, you will work to unite traditional library roles and experimental interdisciplinary processes. The EdLab is a unique library that goes beyond content delivery to explore creative production, product management, social media marketing, and digital archiving. We seek interns with a passion for ushering libraries into the future and demonstrated writing ability. Candidates who have or who are pursuing a degree in library sciences strongly preferred. This is a paid position.

Skills:

  • Communicates effectively with excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Demonstrates excellent organizational skills
  • Familiarity with research methods
  • A commitment to the field of education

Please send resume, cover letter, and writing sample to edlabjobs@tc.columbia.edu

Internship: Audiovisual Archiving and Preservation – CUNY TV

cunytvCUNY TV is the largest public university station in the United States. Based at the CUNY Graduate Center, the channel produces and broadcasts unique and educational programs with topics ranging from science, public affairs, business and science. The CUNY TV archive maintains the stations media library, digital assets and the overall production history of the station. The CUNY TV archive is also the home to much of the audiovisual material produced by the City University of New York and the Himan Brown Radio Archive, a collection that includes the personal papers, scripts, photographs and audio-visual material related to the famed radio director and producer.

The CUNY TV archive is accepting intern applications for the spring and summer semster to participate in digital preservation, digitization, collection management, and media cataloging projects. Interns will work with a variety of analog and digital audiovisual formats, help facilitate better access to collections, catalog media with the PBCore metadata standard, learn various command-line tools, and learn how to apply and develop microservices. They will also have the opportunity to work on a number of projects including collection inventory, born-digital processing, access, and assessment along with ongoing audiovisual digitization projects.

Students interested in experiencing how an audiovisual archive functions in a busy broadcast and production environment are encouraged to apply. This internship is for credit only.

To apply: Send a cover letter and resume via email to Dave Rice, Archive Director:dave@cuny.tv.

Photo Archives and Digital Asset Management Internship – Wildlife Conservation Society

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Department: Library & Archives
Title: Photo Archives and Digital Asset Management Intern
Supervisor: Library & Archives Director
Start Date: January 19, 2015
End Date: May 15, 2015

Schedule:
Minimum commitment of 104 hours, between Monday and Friday, 9AM-5PM

Application deadline:
November 24, 2014

Summary

Under the guidance of the WCS Institutional Archivist and Digital Resources Manager, the Photo Archives and Digital Asset Management will gain experience in the care and management of historical and modern photo collections. While WCS Archives internships are unpaid, we are happy to work with academic institutions so that students can get academic credit for their internship. Interns should be able to commit at least 104 hours to the internship.

Objectives

  • Digitize historical prints according to professional standards
  • Assist with the ingest of current photo assets into WCS’s digital asset management system
  • Research and record metadata about current and historical photographic materials
  • Create one or more posts documenting the internship for Wild Things, the WCS Archives Blog

Qualifications

Enrollment in or recent completion of graduate program (within the last 6 months) in library science, museum studies, or a related field

  • Strong interest in the management of photographic collections
  • Experience with archival collections and/or photographic materials is preferred
  • Working knowledge of the ingest, cataloging, storage, retrieval, and distribution of digital assets in a Digital Asset Management system
  • Experience with professional digitization standards and with photo software and scanning software
  • Familiarity with standard metadata schema and vocabularies

Location

  • Bronx Zoo

Application Instructions

For full consideration, interested individuals should submit a resume and a statement of interest describing what you hope to bring to the internship and gain from the experience.  Please email your cover letter and resume to: Opportunities@wcs.org; specify “Photo Archives and Digital Asset Management Intern, Spring 2015” in the subject of your email.

EOE, M/F/V/D

Archives Processing Intern – Wildlife Conservation Society – Spring 2015

wcs logoDepartment: Library & Archives, Bronx Zoo
Supervisor: Library and Archives Director
Start Date: January 19, 2015
End Date: May 15, 2015

Schedule

Minimum commitment of 104 hours, between Monday and Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm.

Application deadline:

November 24, 2014

Summary

Under the guidance of the WCS Processing Archivist, the Archives Processing Intern will gain experience in various components of archival processing and description. While WCS Archives internships are unpaid, we are happy to work with academic institutions so that students can get academic credit for their internship. Interns should be able to commit at least 104 hours to the internship and must schedule their hours Monday through Friday, 9-5.

Objectives

  • Survey, arrange, and describe an archival collection
  • Enter data into an archival management system
  • Create an EAD finding aid
  • Create one or more posts documenting the internship for Wild Things, the WCS Archives Blog

Qualifications

  • Enrollment in or recent completion of a graduate program (within the last 6 months) in library science, museum studies, or a related field
  • Experience with archival collections and/or photographic materials is preferred

Location

  • Bronx Zoo

Application Instructions

For full consideration of your application, interested individuals should submit a resume and a statement of interest describing what you hope to bring to the internship and gain from the experience.  Please email your cover letter and resume to: Opportunities@wcs.org; specify “Archives Processing Intern, Spring 2015” in the subject of your email.

EOE, M/F/V/D

Archives Processing Intern – Wildlife Conservation Society – Bronx Zoo

wcs logoJob Description:Number of openings: 2
Reports To: Library & Archives Director
Duration: Minimum of 13 weeks between September 8th and December 19th, 2014
Schedule: Hours must be scheduled between Monday – Friday
Hours: 8 hours a week, scheduled between 9:00am – 5:00pm, for a total minimum of 104 hours Application deadline: Review of applications starts August 18, 2014, with a final deadline of September 1, 2014

Summary

The Wildlife Conservation Society Archives (located at the Bronx Zoo) is currently accepting applications for an Archival Processing Internship from graduate students preparing for careers in libraries, archives, or related cultural institutions.

Under the guidance of the WCS Processing Archivist, the Archives Processing Intern will gain experience in various components of archival processing and description. While WCS Archives internships are unpaid, we are happy to work with academic institutions so that students can get academic credit for their internship. Interns should be able to commit at least 104 hours to the internship.

Objectives

Experience to be gained includes but is not limited to:

-survey, arrange, and describe an archival collection
-import data into an archival management system
-create an EAD finding aid
-document work with one or more posts for Wild Things, the WCS Archives Blog

Qualifications

-enrollment in or recent completion of graduate program in library science, museum studies, or a related field
-experience with archival collections and/or photographic materials is preferred

Location

Bronx Zoo

Application Instructions

For full consideration of your application, interested individuals should submit a resume and a statement of interest describing what you hope to bring to the internship and gain from the experience.

Please email your statement of interest and resume to: Opportunities@wcs.org, specify “Archives Processing Intern” in the subject of your email.

About the Organization

Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society is committed to saving wildlife and wild places worldwide. This initiative is carried out through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Documenting the history of this work, the WCS Archives includes records related to the histories of the Bronx Zoo, the New York Aquarium, international field work projects, and other WCS institutions and activities.

EOE, M/F/V/D