Projects
Curatorial and Public Services – 121 Wall Street
· Title: Curatorial Intern for African American Collections and Public Services
· Responsibilities: The intern will receive :
o Introduction to and experience with bibliography and collection development
o Introduction to and experience with online exhibition curation and Omeka
o Introduction to and experience with research services (research and classroom support)
o Introduction to and experience with Aeon
o Introduction to and experience with reading room support
· Specific projects: Curatorial: Bibliographic research and online exhibit curation. Public Services: depending on the timing of the internship, projects will include assisting in the maintenance/upgrade of Aeon software, writing documentation for patrons and staff on discovery tools, classroom & reading room support, brainstorming promotional materials for Beinecke Library. Preparing for classes and providing online reference may also be included
Manuscript Cataloging – 344 Winchester Avenue
· Title: Cataloging and Archival Processing Intern
· Responsibilities: The intern will work primarily with materials from the Otto F. Ege Collection, which contains medieval and early modern manuscript codices and fragments, and printed volumes and fragments. Responsibilities will include surveying, simple arrangement, and description of materials at both the item and collection level. The intern will receive:
o A solid grounding in modern descriptive techniques for pre1800 material at the item level, including the use of the current national standards AMREMM and DCRM(MSS).
o An introduction to the adaptation of modern archival arrangement and descriptive methods to the archival processing of pre1800 material, including the selection of appropriate levels of processing for various materials and the creation of multilevel finding aids
o Introduction to and experience with MARC and EAD, (Voyager and ArchivesSpace)
o Working constructively with an actively interested researcher community and the information on the Otto F. Ege Collection they have made available online.
· Specific projects: The specific assignments will depend partly on a student’s language and paleographic skills, as well as any previous cataloging experience, but will include both item-level record creation and work on a portion of a finding aid
Manuscript Accessioning – 344 Winchester Avenue
§ Title: Accessioning and Archival Processing Intern
§ Responsibilities: The intern will receive:
o Broad introduction to archival processing procedures for manuscript collections—which include a wide range of material from the 15th century to the present--with an emphasis on baseline-level processing of 20th-21st century collections.
o Introduction to and experience with using ArchivesSpace and Voyager.
o Introduction to and experience with DACS, EAD, and MARC.
o Introduction to accessioning workflows including creation of accession records, verifying new acquisitions, and physical processing of collections including arrangement and description, preparation of finding aids, and creation of collection-level catalog records.
§ Specific projects: Will depend on a person’s prior technical processing and cataloging experience, subject knowledge, and interests.