Frontline Internship, WGBH, Boston, MA

Posted June 6, 2016

FRONTLINE: Digital Records

Department Description:

Since 1983, FRONTLINE, has served as PBS’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 34 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience, and each day with its robust coverage of public affairs on the web.

Internship Experience:

WGBH Educational Foundation’s FRONTLINE unit is offering unpaid internships in digital preservation and curation, physical and electronic records management and intellectual property and rights management. We are currently seeking Masters degree students in Library Science to assist in the assessing, digitizing, and processing of a large volume of legal and program records (both digital and physical) related to WGBH’s public media content.

Duties will include:

• Digitizing program records
• Providing descriptive metadata  for each record in WGBH’s Production Information Management Database (Filemaker-based)
• Assessing each program file for completeness (supporting the shut down and electronic delivery of shutdown files)
• Evaluating file contents for rights and permissions (inclusing basic re-cleaning of archival content from stock libraries houses)
• Preparing final physical production files for the Media Library and Archives (MLA)

Schools/Programs/Major desired:

Masters Degree students currently enrolled in a Library Science program.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter at [email protected]