Arthur Vining Davis Library: Archives & Special CollectionsCollege Internship
The library and archives has been providing resources, reference, and research for 35 years at Mote Marine Laboratory. Its collection is maintained for the support of marine research and education.
The Library is seeking an Intern with an interest or background in special or archival collections, history, history of science, technical writing, editing, computer/technology, or data management to be involved in an archives grant project funded by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The internship is for the Fall of 2013 for a total of 200 hours. Scholarship funds are available. The library is open from 8 – 5 Mon.– Fri.
The project involves the library’s special collections and includes basic processing, arrangement and description of the materials, preservation activities, and increasing accessibility to the collections. As part of the project, pertinent items in the collection are being digitized and/or transcribed and added to Mote’s Institutional Repository, DSpace, using descriptive metadata. The manuscripts being transcribed are field journals from the early 1900s of prominent ichthyologist, Charles M. Breder, Jr.
The intern will participate in the activities and tasks listed below.
-Transcription, verification and editing of pertinent hand-written field journals/manuscripts.
-Assist with digitization activities including scanning and creating TIFFS, JPEGS, and PDFs of selected materials.
-Crop, format and enhance digital documents as needed.
-Assist with descriptive metadata cataloging and loading of records into DSpace.
-Assist with various archival processing tasks.
Knowledge of the following is helpful:
-Experience with Adobe Pro and Photoshop
-Previous use of Microsoft Office Suite
-Familiarity with Dublin Core descriptive metadata
-Awareness of current archival standards/best practices
-Excellent research and writing skills
Intern should have special library, archival, history, science, history of science, technical writing, editing, computer/technology, data management or related background or interest.
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