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The Columbia University Libraries’ Graduate Student Internship Program is designed to enrich graduate studies and professional training in primary sources through an introduction to archival work, supplemented with a program of lectures, workshops and tours.
Work in the Archives Includes
- Training in archival processing practices under the supervision of curators and archivists.
- Arranging, describing, and cataloguing collections in one’s area of research and interest.
- Creating finding aids, once a collection has been processed, for online publication.
- Learning to uncover primary source collections relevant to one’s research and to better understand the nature, origin and uses of primary sources.
Rounding out the Experience
- Behind-the-scenes tours of participating libraries and archives.
- Presentations by library staff on oral history, digital archives, issues of conservation and preservation, new ways to research, and introductions to collections.
- Discussions by Columbia faculty and outside scholars on issues of privacy and confidentiality facing researchers, the creation of special collection libraries, and their own researching adventures in the archives.
- Past speakers have included: Thomas Staley, Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin; Peter Wosh, Director of the Archival Management and Public History Programs at New York University; James McGrath Morris, author of The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism.
Eligibility
Graduate or professional students in the following Columbia University Schools and Affiliates
Terms and Duration
- Twelve internships are available
- June, 2008 through May, 2009
- The rate of pay is $20/hour
The program is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
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