P/T - Cataloging Internship - Museum of the City of New York, Ephemera Collections (NYC)

The Museum of the City of New York seeks student Interns to work in conjunction with a project to process, catalog, digitize, and rehouse the Ephemera Collections of the Museum of the City of New York. The interns will work alongside one part-time employee and the Museum's Assistant Director of Collections to process over 6500 objects in order to prepare them for digitization. Tasks include but are not limited to conducting condition assessments, recording dimensions and locations, and re-housing. Interns will be trained by the Project Manager, and have the opportunity to become familiar with the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) data content standard, gain experience in object handling, and obtain first-hand knowledge of the steps involved in a large digitization process. Interns will also create complete catalog records with descriptive and physical metadata for those objects exuded from the digitization process that will not be accessible to the public, but only internally to the Museum staff. 

propriate candidates will be currently enrolled in Master's program in Information and Library Science, with at least some coursework in archival studies. Preferred skills and qualifications include previous coursework working with cultural objects; familiarity to CCO data content standard; knowledge or demonstrated interest in theater history; exposure to collections management systems such as ARGUS, Past Perfect, or TMS; and experience handling fragile objects.

The Internship requires a minimum commitment of two full days a week (7 hours), scheduled during the Monday-Friday workweek for the duration of a semester. Students with an interest in working with the Theater Collection may have the opportunity to structure those days to include work with both collections. internships are unpaid. Preference will be given to students completing the internship for course credit.

To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to Lindsay Turley, Assistant Director of Collections, via email at lturley@mcny.org.

Founded in 1923 as a private, non-profit corporation, the Museum connects the past, present and future of NYC. It celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. it severs the public through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications and collections. The Museum of the City of New York is an Equal Opportunity Employer.