Full-Time Archival Internship Guidelines
For the consideration of professional development without salary, wages,
or compensation, the Archival Intern will work with and report to the
Archivist of the Center of Southwest Studies full-time for a minimum of 160
hours.
1. The Intern will work, on average, 40 hours per week. The period of work is negotiable.
2.
Under the collaborative leadership of the
Archivist, the Intern
will assist with various and sundry of the broad gamut of archival tasks
at the Center of Southwest Studies, including
arrangement and
description,
preservation,
reference and access service,
acquisitions and
appraisal of collections,
accessioning, Fort
Lewis College records
management, oral history
interviewing, outreach,
institutional planning,
and work on the Center's web
site.
3.
The
Intern will complete an
arrangement and description project on a discrete collection/ unit
of records (the Archivist will select a project that can be finished during
the internship period).
4.
The
Intern will complete a
preservation project
(for example, in the area of environmental monitoring, holdings
maintenance, reformatting, and digitization for access so as to preserve the
originals).
5.
The
Intern will participate in the Archives and Archivists discussion list
on the Internet, and in regular meetings of the Center of Southwest Studies
staff.
6.
The
Intern will participate in any meetings of the Southwest Studies Advisory
Committee, the Southwest Accessions/ Deaccessions Committee,
and related
committees.
7.
The
Intern will assist the Archivist in the supervision of any student archival
assistant workers.
8.
Project Director Todd Ellison will be available throughout the course of the
Internship for consultation and mentoring with the Intern, and will be
directly responsible for the supervision of the Intern's work.
9.
Any
historical research the Intern chooses to do must be done on the
Intern's own personal time, and research at the Center must be done under the
same terms as those that apply to a non-staff researcher (i.e., conducted in
the designated research areas and the designated research room hours).
10.
This
is a work for hire; thus, all the data files and other products of this
work will adhere and to and remain with the Center of Southwest Studies.
11.
The
Intern is responsible to submit a final report to the Archivist upon
the completion of the internship.
To apply:
Internships are awarded through a competitive process, based on the evaluation
of the Center of
Southwest Studies staff functioning as a search committee.
To apply, specify which of the three internship opportunities you are
interested in, and mail the following three items to the Center of Southwest
Studies, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Dr., Durango, CO 81301-3999:
-
Letter of interest
(2-3 pages).
-
Two letters of
reference.
-
Resume.
In addition, if this internship is to count for credit, the applicant will
have to arrange for the process to establish the Archivist as the instructor
of record for the purpose of assigning a grade for the internship. Ethnic minorities are encouraged to apply, as are home school
graduates. We recognize that an
internship such as this can be a means of acquiring necessary skills and
experience outside of the traditional academic setting.
Questions? Email the Archivist at archives@fortlewis.edu
Center of Southwest Studies website: http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu
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