Summer 2012 Internships
Internships at Smith
SWG Summer 2012 Internship, Sophia Smith Collection
SWG Interns work with archivists and learn the multiple facets of archival work in Smith's internationall recognized repository of women's history sources. The intern will learn how manuscript collections are acquired and prepared for research, the basics of organizing and describing collections and she may write about a particular collection for the SSC newsletter or help prepare and exhibit. A SWG Internship counts as one of the required practical experiences for fulfilling the Archives Concentration.
The internship will focus on helping prepare recent SSC acquisitions of special interest to SWG for future use in our classes.
The internship is 35 hours/week for 9-11 weeks at $8.50 an hour.
Deadline: April 6, 2012
Requirements: Applicants must be a SWG major or minor with an interest and aptitude for work in an archives or manuscripts collection, or related career in women's studies scholarship or public history organizations. Good research skills and attention to detail. It is not necessary for applicants to be eligible for work-study.
**Applicants for the summer internship must be rising sophomores, juniors, or seniors, still enrolled in Smith College in September 2012**
To apply: send a resume and cover letter to Maida Goodwin at mgoodwin@smith.edu
Fraenkel Internship, Sophia Smith Collection
The Sophia Smith Collection seeks a summer intern with strong computer skills and experience with Web design, digital image management, and media production to help maintain the SSC Web site and build and preserve our digital media collections. This position provides a unique opportunity for a Smith student to explore her interest in the field of archives management with a special emphasis on digital collections and audiovisual materials. The student may also spend some time organizing manuscript collections, drafting collection inventories, and assisting with reference services.
Qualifications
Required:
- Extensive personal computing experience, including file management, data-entry, and a strong familiarity with Windows and Web browsers
- Some knowledge of HTML and Web design
- Familiarity with scanning and PhotoShop or other imaging software
- Good written and interpersonal communications skills; excellent attention to detail; organizational skills; patience; and the ability to work independently.
Desirable:
- Familiarity with various audiovisual formats (analog and digital)
- Experience with digital media production, editing software, and creation of streaming media for the Web
- Familiarity with XHTML, XML, CSS, Javascript
- An interest in archives management, women's history, and/or American studies.
This position is for 20–35 hours per week.
Please apply for this internship on JobX and also submit a cover letter and resume to: Margaret Jessup, Digital Resources Archivist mjessup@smith.edu
Deadline: April 30
Oral History Internship at the Sophia Smith Collection
Internship at the Sophia Smith Collection in oral history. Intern will help to process and prepare oral history collections for public use. Ideally, this is for a student using their Praxis funding. If that is not possible, SSC funds may be available. Internship will be 220 hours.
Contact: Kelly Anderson at kpanders@smith.edu
Deadline: March 21
Other Internships -- Require Praxis funding
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Annapolis, Maryland
The goals of the Cultural Resources Summer Intern are two-fold. The primary goal of the internship is to assist with the digitization of the Department's inventory of over 1,000 historic sites and structures and begin the process of mapping these sites with GIS. The secondary goal is to create a public use component from the digitized material such as a web feature, brochure, interactive map, interpretive program, etc. Archival work and data entry will be balanced with field vists to sites such as State Parks, forests, and wildlife management areas.
Qualifications:
- Prospective candidates should be pursuing a degree in American Studies, Museum Studies, Architecture, Anthropology, or Historic Preservation
- Experience in historic research and writing as well as have a working knowledge of American architecture and history
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Proficiency with computers, digital cameras, scanners, and data entry
- Knowledge of and experience in collections management, material culture, and archival processes
The internship has a minimum commitment of 220 hrs with a flexible start date of May 23rd - July 20th. Students may use their Praxis funding.
To apply: Please submit a detailed resume, cover letter, two letters of recommendation from professors, a writing sample, and a copy of current transcript to Emily Burrows at eburrows@dnr.md.state.us
Jewish Women's Archive
Brookline, Massachusetts
The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women. An internship would involve working directly with archivists in several aspects of their work.
Contact: Ellen Rothman erothman@jwa.org
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York, New York
The project will involve working with two archivists who are processing the J. Wayne Fredericks Papers. Fredericks (1917-2004) was an American diplomat, business executive and foundation official, who was involved with African affairs (particularly southern Africa) for more than 60 years, including six years as deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. The Series still to be completed include Country Files, Subject Files, Organizations and Boards, and his Consulting and Advisory roles. The papers primarily include correspondence, clippings and other printed material, conference papers, and reports. The intern will help identify, arrange, and describe the material under the supervision of the archivist. We prefer a senior, junior or rising junior for this project.
Contact: Diana Lachatanere at dlachatanere@nypl.org
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
New York, New York
Deadline: March 1, 2012
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project offers a summer internship program which has been in operation since 1995. Graduate and undergraduate students from universities in the United States and Europe have worked with the editorial staff on our microfilm, book and electronic publications and received broad experience in historical research and editing.
For 2012, interns can select from projects related to our book or digital editions. While most of internships are arranged in the summer months, some can be arranged throughout the academic year.
We ask that interns be familiar with IBM-based computers, using Windows, have good research skills and can pay scrupulous attention to detail. Background in history, women's history or women's studies is desirable. We often have a number of qualified candidates for these positions and evaluate applications in light of the project's specific needs.
Book Edition Internship
Interns will be working on Volume IV of the Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, covering the years 1920-1966 and focusing on Sanger's efforts to create a global birth control movement. Interns will work under the supervision of editors on specific topics, tracing people, places, events and issues covered in the documents. The research will be used to produce annotation and introductory material for the volume. Research will be conducted in the project's offices, using the comprehensive microfilm edition and other primary sources, as well as at local libraries and with resources available on the Internet.
Digital Internship
We continue work on our digital edition of Sanger's speeches and articles, focusing on texts written by Margaret Sanger in the late 1930s. Interns will be proofread the texts, add XML encoding, and draft subject index entries for the documents. Interns will conduct research as needed to verify dates, titles, and publication information, or to identify the names of people, organizations and books mentioned in the documents.
Web Outreach Internship
We are also looking for an intern to help develop a stronger web presence for the project, utilizing digital tools such as facebook, wikis, blogs, and Web site analysis to draw attention to the project's work and connect with our audiences. For this internship, familiarity with history, HTML and the Web is required.
General Information: The project's offices are open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Interns should expect to devote 150–250 hours to their project which can be arranged flexibly over the summer (generally either part time for six weeks or one day per week all summer). Depending on scheduling and interest, several positions may be filled in each category. Unfortunately, because of budget constraints, we are unable to offer payment for internships, though many interns have been able to apply their work for credit at their own universities.
Housing: For those applying from outside New York City, NYU offers student housing during the summer months. Prices vary depending on accommodations and whether or not interns enroll in NYU's summer program. Many interns have also been able to locate reasonably priced off-campus housing. See the NY Village Voice's Web site for classifieds.
Contact: Dr. Cathy Moran Hajo cathy.hajo@nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 998-8666
Harvard Art Museums Archives
Cambridge, MA
The archives holds a rich collection pertaining to the history of the museums, and the history of the education of museum professionals (art historians, curators, conservators, registrars, etc) more broadly. It also holds the personal papers of some artists, galleries and museum professionals. The formal archival program is five years old, and while the basics have been done, there is still much to do. This could include one focused project (e.g., developing a program or arranging and describing a collection—would require some previous archives experience), or could be working on smaller projects "serially," e.g., reference, exploring the use of technology to digitize materials and/or to preserve born-digital records, conducting research and advising on various potential projects (e.g. expanding outreach efforts via web 2.0 tools), etc.An internship is most successful when it matches an intern's interests with a project that needs to be done here. Therefore, many possibilities exist, and the internship would develop with input from the student.
Evaluation: The archivist/records manager will assist in day-to-day supervision as needed. The internship will be very hands-on but we do not have the staff or the inclination to micromanage. The intern will be expected to work well independently, but will of course be able to ask for guidance at any time. We will hold weekly meetings; the length will vary according to need. In order to understand the culture of the museum, the intern will attend as many museum meetings as appropriate, and will &publication, etc.
Contact: Susan von Salis susan_vonsalis@harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-2384
Wistariahurst Museum
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Wistariahurst Museum is dedicated to preserving Holyoke's history and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture through educational programs, exhibits and special events. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Wistariahurst is the former home of William Skinner, a prominent silk manufacturer. Our archive collections include the Holyoke Collection, the Skinner Collection, the Textile Collection and various smaller associated collections. The archive is open to the public Mondays 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or by appointment. The curator of collections is on site 35+ hours each week.
Archive interns, under the guidance of the curator of collections, will have the opportunity to work in a variety of archival areas, including processing donated materials; responding to research inquiries; re-housing collections; assisting in exhibit preparation and educational presentations; and aiding researchers. Interns should have competent computer skills; be able to follow directions; be mindful and respectful of delicate materials; have a sense of responsibility and a sense of humor; and be able to carry document boxes up and down stairs. In return the intern will have exposure to what it is like to work in an archive in an active public museum, an opportunity to work with primary source documents and artifacts, and this experience should give them a well rounded view of the archival field.
Among the various projects available at the museum is staffing the community room, research/exhibit preparation, scanning, program preparation, collecting inventory on database, public relations, and staffing of special events. A processing assitant for the papers of Carlos Vega will be needed in the near future.
Internships need to take place at the museum and archive between Monday to Thursday between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. At this time the museum does not have funding available for internships, although we'd be happy to cooperate in any grant applications the intern might present.
Contact: Penni Martorell at MartorellP@ci.holyoke.ma.us
CUNY Dominican Archives Internship Program
New York, NY
The Dominican Archives Internship Program is designed to provide interns with hands-on knowledge regarding the survey, accession, processing, arrangement, description, automation, preservation and servicing of archival materials, and use of primary source material for historical research. In addition, the program is supplemented by a mentoring component which includes information related to appropriate workplace conduct, work habits, time management, job performance, and job-readiness skills. Interns will work under the supervision of archives professionals and technicians in order to obtain a general knowledge of the nature of the work, working conditions, training requirements, emplyment opportunities as well as the actual work involved in the archival profession.
The program is adminstered by Chief Archivist, Idilio Gracia Peña, a professional archivist with many years of experiences in the archival profession.
This internship is unpaid.
Contact: Idilio Gracia Pena at igraciap@ccny.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-8865
Historic Deerfield
Deerfield, MA
The internship involves working with the institutional papers of Historic Deerfield, a museum of New England history and art, and those of its founder, Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970). The Historic Deerfield archives document a wide range of activities: exhibitions; publications; lectures, workshops, and other public events; the annual summer fellows’ program; operation of the Deerfield Inn and museum store; and governance. Unprocessed papers primarily consist of fliers and announcements; clippings; reports and other printed material; and correspondence. The intern will help arrange and describe the material under the supervision of Historic Deerfield staff, in order to create a finding aid to the collection.
This internship is unpaid.
It can be either this summer or next fall.
Contact: David Bosse at dbosse@historic-deerfield.org
Amherst Writers and Artists
Amherst, MA
Interns will work with Pat Schneider, the founder of AWA, to prepare her personal and institutional papers for donation to the Sophia Smith Collection. AWA would prefer an intern able to work for either two consecutive semesters or the summer plus a semester.
Contact: amherstwriters@gmail.com
Phone: (413) 253-3307
