Spring Internship, Mt. Sinai (Manhattan)

Levy Library Spring 2017 Internship Opportunity – Academic Health Sciences Library

 

Want to know what it’s really like to work at an academic health sciences library? The Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is offering an internship for spring semester 2017 for students enrolled in ALA accredited library and information science graduate programs. We seek an intern who is interested in pursuing a career in academic librarianship and who will bring enthusiasm and creativity to their internship project. This internship is unpaid. You must receive credit for this internship. 

 

To apply, please submit your application to Robin O’Hanlon (Assistant Director, Outreach & Public Services, Levy Library)

Email: robin.ohanlon@mssm.edu

The application should include:

• A brief résumé

• Identification of and reasons for interest in the internship

• The applicant’s qualifications for the internship, including a list of any courses taken that are relevant to the specific internship(s) desired

• Description of the applicant’s career goals

• Number of hours available for the internship

 

 

About Us

 

The Levy Library supports the education, research, and clinical information needs of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Library provides an inviting environment designed to facilitate research, study, and collaboration. It offers an extensive collection of biomedical databases, e-journals, e-books, and print resources; and serves as a resource on information retrieval, information management and scholarly communication issues.

The Library is a unit of Mount Sinai's Academic Informatics and Technology division. Academic Informatics and Technology also encompasses The Mount Sinai Archives and Records Management department; the Instructional Technology and Learning Systems team and the Academic Support and Learning Environments group.

Summer Internship (Early Consideration), NYPD (Manhattan)

Summer 2017 Internship (Early Consideration)

Description:

The NYPD Video Production Unit (VPU) Archive consists of over 10,000 programs on film, analog video, and as born digital files. The materials capture the evolution of NYPD tactics and training, global and international policing initiatives, and moments of historical and cultural importance to the NYPD and the larger NYC community over the past eighty years.

Candidates must be a Masters or PhD student in Motion Pictures/Archives/Records Management or Library Science. The intern will assist in the ongoing archiving and preservation efforts of the VPU, including conducting inventories of film and video assets, digitization of the video collection, and descriptive cataloging of digitized programs. The intern will be supervised by experienced, highly trained archivists. The goal of the internship will be to provide hands on experience with the basics of moving image and digital preservation, including digitization, technical and descriptive metadata, care and handling, and file migration and monitoring.

 

Educational Requirements:

Graduate Student – MA/PhD in Motion Picture/Archive/Records Management/Library Science

 

Location:

NYPD Video Production Unit Moving Picture Archive, 235 East 20^th Street, Manhattan

 

Salary is to be determined by the Mayor’s Office.

 

To submit for early consideration, please email a resume and cover letter to:

Director Anthony Lopresti                             Anthony.Lopresti@nypd.org

Sergeant George Kefalas                                GEORGE.KEFALAS@nypd.org

Public Records Officer Sean O’Donnell        SEAN.ODONNELL@nypd.org

Public Records Officer Joshua Ranger           JOSHUA.RANGER@nypd.org

 (Type “NYPD 2017 Summer Internship” in the subject line.)

 

Applications for early consideration will be reviewed.  Applicants will be contacted.

 

 

 

Spring Internship Opps, Gilder Lehrman Inst (Manhattan)

2017 SPRING INTERNSHIPS

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is offering three spring internships for college and graduate students at the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The positions are set to begin in January or February (depending on availability). Internships are typically unpaid, though interns will be reimbursed for transportation costs to/from their internship; if you have a financial hardship and you would need to be paid, please explain this in your application.

TO APPLY

1. Send a cover letter and resume by email to education@gilderlehrman.org.
2. Ask a teacher or professor to send a recommendation for you by email to education@gilderlehrman.org.
For questions, email education@gilderlehrman.org or call 646-366-9666, ext. 27.

GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OVERVIEW

Founded in 1994 by philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a New York–based national nonprofit devoted to the teaching and learning of American history. The Institute draws on top scholars, an unparalleled collection of 60,000 original historical documents, and a national network of Affiliate Schools to create a broad range of innovative resources, help new generations of students learn about American history in a way that is engaging and memorable, and promote critical thinking and excellent writing.

ARCHIVAL INTERN

This internship will provide a strong foundation in multiple aspects of the archives profession. Interns will be trained in object handling and processing, and creation of finding aids. Applicants should be considering a career in archives.

Roles and Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):

• Process and organize student work submitted to the Hamilton Education Program
• Create a filing and preservation system for a large amount of digital material
• Rehouse material based on archival standards
• Create a finding aid
• Create documentation for the process. The Hamilton Education Program is an ongoing multi-year program, and this position will lay the groundwork for processing all future contributions.

Required skills include:

• Enrolled in a graduate-level archives program
• Highly organized with close attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Quick thinker with demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of basic archival standards

Hours: Part Time, Monday–Friday, 10 hours per week | Supervisor: Alinda Borell, Archivist

CURATORIAL INTERN

This internship will provide a strong foundation in multiple aspects of the museum and archives professions. Interns will be trained in object handling, museum education, and cataloging. Applicants should have a strong interest in American history and be considering a career in museum studies or archives.

Roles and Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):

Collection Management

• Review original documents and compare records to database records
• Update record with new or corrected information
• Attach barcode labels to folders and boxes

Cataloging archival materials

• Organize letter collections
• Read letters and provide a summary description

Required skills include:

• Highly organized with close attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Quick thinker with demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of basic collections care and management practices a plus
• Basic knowledge of PastPerfect collections management software a plus

Hours: Part Time, Monday–Friday, 10 hours per week

Supervisor: Beth Huffer, Curator of Books and Manuscripts

CURATORIAL INTERN FOR PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION
This internship will provide a strong foundation in multiple aspects of the museum and archives professions. Interns will be trained in object handling and PastPerfect collections management software. Applicants should have a strong interest in American history.

Roles and Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):

• Review discrete collections of Civil War photographs
• Create location guides for Civil War photographs
• Create condition reports for Civil War photographs as needed
• Review database records and supplemental historical research to correct or add to existing database records of Civil War photographs

Required skills include:

• Highly organized with close attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Quick thinker with demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated academic research skills

Hours: Part Time, Monday–Friday, 10 hours per week
Supervisor: Beth Huffer, Curator of Books and Manuscripts

Spring Internship Opps, ARChive of Contemp Music (Manhattan)

Founded in 1985, the ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City. The ARChive collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present. Since the ARChives founding in 1985 our holdings have grown to over 2 million sound recordings, making the ARChive the largest popular music collection in the United States. In addition to sound recordings and publications, the ARChive actively collects all books, magazines, videos, films, photographs, press kits, newspapers clippings, memorabilia and ephemera relating to the history of popular music.

 

Our current, on-going projects are cataloging and book digitization. Interns may focus on one or both projects and may have the opportunity to work on other projects as they arise.

 

Cataloging:

 

Interns will receive training that enables them to catalog CDs, vinyl LPs, or books in our File Maker Pro Database using our in-house cataloging rules.

We depend directly on our interns and allow them a great deal of hands-on experience and responsibility.

 

Interns may work on related projects (for example, in-filing, processing donations, etc.) as needed, if they are interested.

 

Qualifications:

Ideal for the position is a student or recent graduate with a background or interest in music, musicology, fine art, or library & information science.

Candidates must:

- Possess good interpersonal skills.

- Be responsible, reliable, and detail-oriented.

- Be able to handle delicate and valuable materials with care.

 

Undergraduate library experience and/or graduate-level library classes are preferred.

 

 

Digitization:

 

The ARChive of Contemporary Music is the largest collection of popular music in America, with more than two million recordings. Our music book collection is also one of the best in the United States, numbering 20,000+ volumes. To scan this resource the Internet Archive has installed one of their Scribe machines in our Lower Manhattan facility. When completed, all of our materials will be preserved electronically, OCR Readable, and available in-house for reading and research.

Digitization interns will be trained to scan initially, then will be introduced to more complex tasks once they are familiar with the process. Tasks include:

 

- Loading, Scanning, and Republishing books while ensuring high quality standards.

- Training and working as a team.

- Trouble shooting the scribe machine, mitigating cataloging inconsistencies, and navigating open source software at Internet Archive.

- Keeping work areas and equipment clean, neat, and organized.

 

Qualifications:

- Strong technical (software/hardware) and troubleshooting skills

- Ability to sit for 6-7.5 hour periods, and comfort with repetitive motion

- Highly organized

- Excellent attention to detail

- Familiarity and enthusiasm for music, books, cultural heritage preservation and the arts!

- Previous library or archive experience or education is preferred, but not essential.

 

All internships are unpaid, but we are certainly willing to help you meet any requirements to receive course credit. Time requirements are flexible--we ask that you are available for at least one full day (11:00-6:00) per work week, but the more time you can commit to the more responsibility we can give you.

 

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.

Archive Internship Opp, WNYC-NYPR (Manhattan)

Interns at NYPR are given a robust internship program with hands-on responsibilities.  The goal of our internship program is to provide our interns with a substantive, meaningful work experience so that each intern concludes the internship period with demonstrable skills in his/her area of interest, plus knowledge of public radio, in general.

The NYPR Radio Archives currently maintains a collection of more than 60,000 cataloged broadcast recordings dating from June 1927 to the present. These recordings cover the gamut of the station's activities as one of the nation's earliest public broadcasters. 


This internship will provide an opportunity for a qualified student to collaborate with the Archives’ staff on several ongoing digitization and access projects.  Over the course of the summer, the intern will learn the analog-to-digital transfer process, work within the Archives’ PBCore database, and help create content for the Archives’ website.

What your internship will entail: 

• Hands on experience in archives management
• Learn analog-to-digital workflows for archival audio preservation
• Learn standards-based media cataloging
• Contribute to the archives social media presence: writing blog posts; curating tumblr page.
• Cataloging broadcast material, cleaning and replacing tapes
• Duplicating and quality controlling CDs
• Reformatting archival recordings
• Assisting Archives staff in organizing holdings in the vault
• Identifying orphan materials

 Requirements: 

• Excellent writing skills
• Be familiar with public radio
• Have an interest in audio archives
• Have some familiarity with audio formats
• Have some familiarity with the PBCore metadata schema
• Have a good sense of 20th century history
• Must be enrolled in an accredited library school or archives program to earn course credit
• Must be consistently available for a minimum of 15 hours per week
• Must have a proven willingness to learn new skills

For more information about our Internship Program please click here. 
 If you would like to be considered for this role you must submit:
Your completed online application, a recent copy of your resume, a cover letter expressing why you would like to join the team at NYPR. 
New York Public Radio must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.
New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life. 


To Apply: http://www.wnyc.org/careers/listings/