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Intern, Digital Archives, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Posted January 29, 2018

Johns Hopkins University Digital Archives Summer Internship

Internship description

The Johns Hopkins University Archives seeks qualified applicants for the position of Digital Archives intern. The intern will assist JHU’s Digital Archivist in various activities related to the Archives’ program managing born-digital archives and manuscript collections.

Responsibilities

  • Web archiving (15-20 hours/week): Activities will include studying and learning Archive-It (the Archives’ web content harvester), preparing and running test crawls, analyzing reports, adjusting crawl scope, documenting appraisal activities, running real crawls, and performing quality control.
  • Processing born-digital collections (10-15 hours/week): Activities will include ingesting primary source born-digital records into the Library’s repository, and arranging and describing files according to archival standards.
  • Assisting with transfers/records analyses/documentation (5-10 hours/week): Activities will include arranging for transfer of university records (in both analog and digital form) from campus offices to archives, accessioning university records, and assisting University Archivist in documenting appraisal decisions about university records.

 

Qualifications

  • Enrollment in Simmons’ Graduate School in Library and Information Science
  • Understanding of major archival concepts
  • Familiarity with and expressed interest in concepts related to the management of born-digital archival collections
  • Familiarity with archival description and communication standards, including DACS and EAD
  • Familiarity with archival metadata management tools such as Archivist’s Toolkit and ArchivesSpace
  • Excellent research, writing, and communications skills

 

Term of employment

The internship will be a full-time position for five weeks, comprising approximately 187.5 hours (37.5 hours per week).  Start and end dates are flexible provided they fall between June 1 and August 30.

Compensation

The intern will receive a stipend of $4,500. He or she will be responsible for securing lodging in Baltimore.

To apply

Please email cover letter, resume, and any inquiries to Jordon Steele, University Archivist, at [email protected] (no phone calls, please). There is no application deadline, but review of applications will begin in February. For more information about the University Archives, please visit https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-departments/special-collections/university-archives/.

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