Center of Southwest Studies : Archival Internship Guidelines

Archival Internship Guidelines

Minorities are strongly 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.

A typical application should include a letter of interest, two letters of reference, and your resume addressed to the Archives Manager, Nik Kendziorski.

1. The period of work and weekly hourly committment is negotiable.

2. Under the collaborative leadership of the Archives Manager, the Intern will assist with a variety 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. The work will be guided by use of the Center of Southwest Studies' Archival Procedure Manual.

3. The Intern will complete an arrangement and description project on a discrete collection or unit of records (the Archives Manager 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, or digitization for access in order to preserve original documents).

5. The Intern will participate in any meetings of the Southwest Studies Advisory Committee, the Southwest Accessions/Deaccessions Committee, and related committees.

6. The Intern will assist the Archives Manager in the supervision of any student archival assistant workers.

7. The Archives Manager 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.

8. 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).

9. This is a work for hire; thus, all the data files and other products of this work will remain the property of the Center of Southwest Studies.

10. The Intern is responsible to submit a final report to the Archives Manager upon the completion of the internship.

11. If the internship is to count for course credit, the applicant will have to arrange this with the educational institution that they are attending.