Internship experiences

This last summer I interned at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD. I worked with the Electronic Records Management Team on producing guidance for Federal agencies on how they should handle their electronic records. I was the first intern in my department, but they were excited to have me and are open to more interns in the future.

There are many opportunities at NARA in various archival functions and they are excited to have interns.

This semester (as part of 692) I did a joint internship with Ford Motor Co. and the Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford. The task was to research the logistics related to archiving their public websites. I mostly did a lot of reading about the various techniques and practices. Mostly I worked from Ann Arbor. I would meet periodically with the Ford and BFRC folks to discuss the questions they need to answer in order to get the project in gear.

While enrolled in 692, I worked at Record Management Services at the State of Michigan. It was very helpful in introducing me to RM and all its facets. I created an inventory of the Ingham County Human Services office and compiled them with an inventory from Wayne county into a complete schedule draft. When my internship was completed, the draft was submitted to the State's central office for a first round of comments and revision.

--This summer, while not an formal internship, I'll be processing at the Bentley. It'll be my first chance at processing. I hope its not too scary...

This semester, I've been working on developing digitizing and processing best practices for a pretty sizable collection of negatives depicting romanesque church ornament and architectural sculpture. What's been most interesting about this project is considering how access possibilities can impact cataloging decisions, and having the opportunity to research the CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects) guidelines.

While technically not an internship...it is somewhat ARM related... This summer I will be taking a three week course entitled Florentine Art and Culture: Resources and Documentation. The course is an International program held in Florence, Italy - offered through Pratt Institute SILS in collaboration with Italy's Biblioteca Nazionale and Uffizi Library.

Starting May 30th, Sarah Walch and I will be at the NPS cataloguing their photo and manuscript collection. We will also assist the museum curator with her daily curatorial duties, which includes pest management control (???). We'll tell you more when we get back in August.
-Ricah Marquez

I will be in Milwaukee, WI, this summer completing an internship at Northwestern Mutual as a records manager. In addition, I will be volunteering at Marquette University on a digitization project documenting women's athletics at Marquette since the passage of Title IX. I can tell you more next fall...

I worked for the Bentley as a part of the SI 692 - Practicum (winter 2006). The major premises of the project was to assist in developing a policy to govern the ingest of university image material into the University Archives. More to come later, and I may even provide a link to the presentation slide show given at the final report.

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What is in a signature?

When: Winter 2006 Term
Where: Ann Arbor, MI
Organization: Schoo of Information, Project FANG
Supervisor: Beth Yakel

For my practicum I worked with Ricah Marquez on using....
See http://not.here.yet/ for a write-up of what we did.

The Cline Library is part of Special Collections and Archives Dept, Northern Arizona University

This
internship offered the opportunity to gain practical experience
in the following areas:

The National Gallery of Art offers approximately 20 summer internships
to candidates from all backgrounds who have completed at least an undergraduate
degree by June. Each intern’s project will be directed by a Gallery
curator or department head.  Biweekly “orientation” sessions will
introduce interns to the broad spectrum of museum work through lectures
and tours given by the different curators and department heads.  Placements

I'm at JSTOR, working as a user interface specialist. So, still in ann arbor!

This summer I worked as a Digital Preservation Assistant at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR, part of the Institute for Social Research). I worked with Nancy McGovern, Preservation Officer at ICPSR. I researched geospatial data digital preservation, focusing on best practices, history and milestones, and policies currently in place. From this research, I developed recommendations for ICPSR in regards to their collections in geospatial data. Actually, I’m not done with this project yet, but it turned into a fall job so I will keep working on it.

This is a crossposting from the ALA @ SI website (http://www.si.umich.edu/ALA/).