Junior Fellowship, European Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Posted December 16, 2014

For a stipend of $3,000, the 2015 class of Junior Fellows will work full-time with Library specialists and curators from June 1 through Aug. 7, 2015, to inventory, describe and explore collection holdings and to assist with digital-preservation outreach activities throughout the Library. The program aims to increase access to collections and awareness of the Library’s digital-preservation programs by making them better-known and available to Members of Congress, scholars, researchers, students, teachers and the general public.

The candidate selected to be the European Division’s Junior Fellow (just one Fellow for the European Division) will assist with “light” cataloging of the European Division’s “Cyrillic 4 collection” of about 1,000 mostly slender Russian-language monographs published primarily between 1880 and 1940.  The ideal Junior Fellow candidate for the European Division will:  1) have a good reading knowledge of Russian; 2) be enrolled in a graduate program for Library Science studies; and 3) be interested in learning (or already know something about) basic cataloging. 

U.S. citizenship is required.  Unfortunately, a green card is not sufficient.  The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students.  Fellows may receive course credit – at the full discretion of the student’s university.

A common question is, “Do I have to be there for the entire 10 weeks?   In a word, yes.  Fellows must certainly be present during the first week when all 40 Fellows will receive group orientations before they disperse to work in various divisions of the Library.  It is possible to miss a very few days during the 10 weeks, but not during the first or last weeks.

For more details about the program and information on how to apply, visit www.loc.gov/hr/jrfellows/.

THE DEADLINE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IS MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2015.