Archival Internship, Sony Music (Manhattan)

CREDITED ARCHIVAL INTERNSHIP (UNPAID)

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT ARCHIVES

The Sony Music Entertainment Archives, located in the SONY Building at 25 Madison Ave. in Manhattan, houses the archival materials for Sony’s music companies.  Sony Music is the parent company for the two oldest recorded music companies in the world, Columbia and RCA Victor, as well as other companies such as Arista and Zomba Records.

The Archives maintains historic documentation, an extensive library of photographic and other visual materials, an LP and CD library, and other various company materials.

The Archives is seeking an intern for Summer 2017. The intern will perform various library related tasks, including but not limited to: cataloging of documents and books; organizing and reshelving collections of documents, lps, and cds; and organizing, documenting, and archivally re-housing large segments of the company’s photo collection.

This internship is unpaid and must be taken for credit in an accredited higher degree program.

Please submit a résumé and cover letter to Tom Tierney: Thomas.tierney@sonymusic.com.

Field Book Project Internship, Am Mus of Nat'l History (Manhattan)

American Museum of Natural History Research Library--Field Book Project Internship

Overview:

The CLIR Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Field Notes Project is a collaborative among nine natural history institutions to digitize approximately 450,000 new pages of primary field note material such as journals, field catalogs and specimen lists. AMNH has so far contributed over 18,000 pages to this project and seeks interns to scan and process the remaining material.

Description: 

Interns will be given the opportunity to pilot records through the entire digitization workflow. They will gain experience working with a range of scanning equipment, cataloging and asset management systems, online repositories, file formats, and digitization and metadata standards. Additionally, they will receive experience physically handling original material in various formats and conditions.

Qualifications:

·         Intern must be a current student in an MLS program from an accredited institution.

·         Must have familiarity with Microsoft Office applications, namely Excel and Word.

·         Experience handling fragile documents and/or rare books preferred.

·         Open communication skills and attention to detail.

Timeline:

Applications will be accepted until May 29, 2017.  Interns will ideally begin the week of June 19 and last through December.  It will require a commitment of at least one day a week. 

To apply:

Send a cover letter and resume to Kendra Meyer, Field Book Project Archivist, at kmeyer@amnh.org. Cover letter should include days and hours available. Please feel free to reach out with any questions about the project.

Internship (with stipend), Hospital for Special Surgery Medical Library (Manhattan)

Hospital for Special Surgery Medical Library –Internship (with stipend)

 

The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is seeking a motivated Library/ Information Science student with an interest in Medical (Hospital) libraries to assist the Medical Librarian and Archivist in the library’s daily operation. This person will be responsible for the library’s interlibrary loan service. In addition the Intern will have a special project assisting the Archivist and library staff to edit metadata for the hospital’s digital archives collection.

 

Duties:

This internship opportunity is focused on the special project of editing metadata

for the hospital’s digital archives. Duties includes assigning appropriate medical terminologies and organizing digital items in a database, following the supervision of the Archivist on site. You are responsible to find a good balance between library’s daily operation and your project so that the special project will be completed while you work with us.

 

The library’s daily operation include the below but not limited to:

Assist in interlibrary loan and document delivery (NLMs Docline)

Assist HSS residents/fellows/staff in use of library resources

          -Including PubMed, Ovid, ClinicalKey, UpToDate and RefWorks

Assist providing library orientations, instruction sessions, and various events

Assist providing reference assistance

 

Desired Qualifications:

The opportunity is available to any Library Science student with an interest in medical libraries, but special consideration will be given to candidates with the following:

-Completion of coursework in Health Sciences Resources.

-Completion of coursework in basic Archives management

-Experience with Content Management Systems and/or web design.

-Previous library experience.

-Strong communication skills.

 

Compensation:

The internship position is being offered with a stipend amount of $20/day.

 

Hours:

The candidate would need to be able to commit a minimum of 10 hours a week during the duration of this internship. The schedule is somewhat flexible, but would prefer being able to work on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday afternoon.

 

To apply: Send resume and cover letter to the Medical Library at Medlib@hss.edu by May 19th (Friday), 2017 at 5 pm.