Spring 2016 Interns, Archive of Contemporary Music (Manhattan)
Established in 1985, the ARChive of Contemporary Music has grown to over 2 million recordings, making it the largest popular music collection in the United States. In addition to recorded music, we also collect books, magazines, music memorabilia and more. Our simple goal is to preserve popular music from around the world for future generations. For more information about the archive, visit http://www.arcmusic.org.
We currently have opportunities for
• book scanning
• record cataloging
• Research for Cuba Music Week
Our book digitization project is in cooperation with the Internet Archive's Open Books Project. Interns will be trained to catalog and create metadata for digitize books, perform quality assurance checks on the files, and troubleshoot hardware and software issues. Catalogers will be trained with our in-house cataloging rules and Filemaker Pro database.
All internships are unpaid, but we are certainly willing to help you meet any requirements to receive course credit. Time requirements are flexible--all we ask is that you are available for at least one full day (11:00-6:00) per work week.
If you are interested, please contact Alex Curtin at alex@arcmusic.org with your resume and a few words about your general interest in working at the archive and what project(s) you are interested in contributing to. We have opportunities available both immediately and in the future.
