2026 Summer Internships, State Archives of North Carolina (Raleigh, NC)
Posted March 17, 2026
The State Archives of North Carolina is excited to announce their 2026 unpaid summer internships! Learn more and apply here by April 01: https://archives.ncdcr.gov/support/volunteer-and-internship-opportunities/unpaid-internship-application.
Oral History Internship: The intern will assist the Oral Historian in the description and arrangement of the collection. This includes metadata clean up, summarization, and finding aid creation. The intern will also work with the creation and editing of transcriptions. The goal of the internship is to increase overall interview accessibility and support digital uploading.
Web & Metadata Internship: Understanding metadata, the digital collections, and the Discover Online Catalog (DOC) through the lens of subject guides. The anticipated outcomes of this internship are: webpage HTML material, spreadsheets for upload of subjects into AXAEM and NCDC, a post on the archives blog, History For All the People, and spreadsheet(s) documenting controlled vocabulary (CV) progress and recommendations.
Arrangement and Description Internship: This intern will work under the supervision of the Organization Records Archivist to process new and backlogged archival collections. The intern will learn how to survey a collection, create a processing plan, arrange, rehouse and label materials, and create descriptive metadata for the collection in a finding aid that will be published in the online catalog.
Aycock Brown Photo Collection Internship: The Aycock Brown Photograph digital collection (AV.5127) features a variety of images that capture the Outer Banks during a key time in its development as a popular tourist destination. The images reflect the local economy, lives of residents, tourists, wildlife, and attractions. The Aycock Brown project is part of the Digital Access Branch’s ongoing effort to highlight the collections of the archives regional branch the Outer Banks History Center. As the intern, you will assist in the digitization process by describing and creating image metadata using institutional guidelines to enhance digital retrieval of the collection. Additionally, you will highlight photos you find interesting and create social media content and a blog to promote the collection.