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Institutional Archives Intern, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Institutional Archives of the Art Institute of Chicago were established in 1987 as a department within the structure of the Ryerson Library. The department preserves, accumulates and manages the documentation of the corporate history of the Museum and the School. Internship opportunities are available in the following areas: Records Management Assisting the Archivist in…


Archive Practicum Intern, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Founded in 1901, The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries is the third largest art research library in the United States. The Archives’ mission is to collect artists’ and architects’ papers that complement and extend both the 400,000+ volumes of the Libraries’ collection as well as the permanent collections of the museum’s curatorial departments. The Archives’ collections…


Technical Services Intern, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Internships are available in various units of the Libraries. Projects can be designed to fit practicum or internship requirements for MLS and other academic or professional programs providing field experience. Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, or students in professional programs interested in pursuing careers in libraries, visual resource collections, or archival collections are encouraged to apply…


NewsHour Digitization Project Internship, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Boston, MA

Description: NewsHour Digitization Project intern will primarily assist with quality-control, normalization, and cataloging of records for 8,000 hours of the PBS NewsHour. This is an excellent opportunity to become familiar with audiovisual cataloging, the PBCore metadata schema (pbcore.org), and data normalization. Additionally, the intern will also have the opportunity to contribute to the American Archive…


Cataloging Internship, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Boston, MA

Description: The Cataloging intern will primarily assist with the cataloging and normalization of records for over 40,000 hours of digitized media. This is an excellent opportunity to learn audiovisual cataloging, the PBCore metadata schema (pbcore.org), and data normalization. Additionally, the intern will also have the opportunity to contribute to the American Archive blog and participate…


Spanish-Language Cataloging Internship, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Boston, MA

Description: The Spanish-Language Cataloging intern will primarily assist with the cataloging and normalization of records for audiovisual and sound materials in Spanish. This is an excellent opportunity to learn audiovisual cataloging, the PBCore metadata schema (pbcore.org), and data normalization. Additionally, the intern will also have the opportunity to contribute to the American Archive blog and…


Exhibition Internship, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Boston, MA

Description: The primary role of the Exhibition intern is to research and curate an exhibition using digitized materials in the archive, which will be featured on the AAPB website at americanarchive.org. They may also provide high quality reference services to researchers who are seeking materials in the archive. Additionally, the intern will also have the…


Library Intern – Local History, South Hadley Public Library, South Hadley, MA

This South Hadley Public Library internship offers students the opportunity to assist and learn about the overall library, as well as work on special projects in our local history room. Since opening in 2014, our new local history room has added many great local history resources to the collection and staff have begun sorting through…


Part-Time Digital Asset Management Assistant, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Job Description: The part-time digital asset management assistant will help us process our photo shoots using our DAM system (Portfolio Extensis). The assistant will be responsible for uploading and adding metadata to all shoots. Our database which currently contains over 150,000 assets, is used by multiple departments throughout Harvard Law School and externally and is…


Textual Processing Internship, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is currently seeking applicants for a part-time intern position in our Archives Processing Unit. Through this internship you will learn to apply the basic principles of arrangement, description, and preservation to textual collections related to the life and times of John F. Kennedy. You will work under…