Archives Intern

What you'd do

• Process the Visiting Nurses Association of Rochester, NY papers according to national archival standards: rehouse the collection for preservation, arrange and describe the collection, and create a DACS-compliant finding aid in ArchivesSpace.
• Curate a digital collection from History of Medicine’s Atwater American Popular Medicine Collection ephemera to be added to New York Heritage.
• Digitize the curated items according to New York Heritage guidelines.
• Create metadata to describe the digitized material according to New York Heritage guidelines
• Promote the work done throughout the internship via blog posts and social media, collaborating with Miner Library’s social media team, as well as through archival and library association newsletters and listservs
• Other archival duties as assigned.

What they want

• High School diploma required
• Or equivalent combination of education and experienc
• Enrolled in a higher education degree seeking program in a related field (i.e. history, library science, museum studies, art history, etc.) preferred
• Enrolled in a credit-bearing internship/practicum before the internship begins preferred
• Enrolled in a MLIS degree program or equivalent preferred
• Experience arranging and describing archival materials preferred
• Experience with collections management systems, such as ArchivesSpace preferred
• Experience with digitization and metadata creation preferred
• Interest in gaining experience with archival collections and description preferred
• Familiarity with archival descriptive content standards, especially Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) preferred