Image Relay Paid Internship, Agri-Mark, Methuen, MA

Posted September 29, 2014

Process the photo archive of Agri-Mark: The Northeast’s Premier Dairy Farmer Cooperative. (North Shore)

This opportunity is intended to enrich the applicant’s experience by expanding their work skills. It is especially suited to an MLIS student who would like real world experience with Digital Asset Management as well as interact with the many integrated programs that support a successful marketing department (Cabot Cooperative). The subject matter are the historical farms and dairies and cooperatives of New England.

This paid internship ($12-14 per hour commensurate) is intended to provide up to 60 hours of work over 8 weeks, and consists of processing boxes of older photographs, then foldering them and producing a finding aid for future researchers. The chosen applicant will work with the Communications Director of Agri-Mark to identify the photographs and add metadata, then with Image Relay to create a workflow for scanning the images into their Digital Asset Management system.

The work placement will be at the Agri-Mark Inc. office in Methuen, MA (100 Milk St, Methuen, MA 01844). Letters and resume may be set to james@imagerelay. Please make note of your current degree program, and classes fulfilled, and any relevant enthusiasm…