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.
Some of our current projects are:
Cataloging:
Interns will receive training that enables them to catalog CDs,
vinyl LPs, and books in our File Maker Pro Database using our in-house
cataloging standards. We depend directly on our interns and allow them a great
deal of hands-on experience and responsibility.
Book Digitization:
Our book digitization project is in cooperation with the
Internet Archive's Open Books Project. Interns will be trained to catalog and
create metadata, digitize books, perform quality assurance checks on the files,
and troubleshoot hardware and software issues.
Research:
Our interns are currently conducting research for the Internet
Archive’s Great 78 Project (http://great78.archive.org/). This involves researching 78 rpm
records from roughly 1900 to 1959 to update and correct metadata and add
synopses to the Internet Archive’s digital collection.
Interns may be asked to work on additional projects and tasks as
needed, such as in-filing sound recordings, processing incoming donations, etc.
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 brief cover letter explaining your general interest in working at
the archive and what project(s) you are interested in contributing to.
