Digital Curation Services - University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville VA
The University of Virginia Library, a leader in the development of digital
library initiatives and infrastructure and recognized for the strength and
variety of its special collections, is excited to offer an eight-week summer
internship to provide a graduate student with practical experience in both
areas.
One of the primary caretakers responsible for the transformation of the
Library's rare and unique materials to digital formats, as well as the
stewardship of these images, Digital Curation Services, comprised of eight
staff members and twenty student employees, oversees several grants,
multiple donor projects, user requests from faculty and students, and its
own library collection building practices. In order to enhance researchers’
access to UVa’s rare manuscript collections, Digitization Services, a unit
within Digital Curation Services, has recently undertaken the digitization
of several thousand collection guides created by the Special Collections
department over the last 70 years.
In the next phase of this digitization project, the guides - scanned,
keyboarded, and marked up in EAD - will require quality assurance and
preparation for inclusion in the UVa digital repository. Working with
Digital Curation Services’ staff, the metadata intern will be involved in
assessment of the returned EAD, metadata standardization, working with the
physical collections to resolve discrepancies, and collaboration in planning
for the migration of the guides into the digital repository. The intern will
also have responsibility for creating both documentation and processing
instructions for use by student employees.
Upon completion, the intern will have gained familiarity with XML, EAD,
MODS, and the metadata mapping process, as well as experience in both
working with rare materials and collaborating between university research
library departments. This 35hr/week, eight-week internship provides a
stipend of $5,000.
Eligibility:
• Applicants must currently be enrolled as a graduate student in good
standing in an ALA- accredited master’s program in library and information
studies.
• Applicants must commit to 8 weeks of full-time onsite service (35 hours/week).
• Internship must be completed during the months of June, July and August.
• If not a U.S. citizen, applicants must have student or working visas.
Students interested in the internship should submit (via email) a letter of
application stating their areas of proficiency and interest, a resume, a
list of completed classes (unofficial transcript), and contact information
for three references to Jocelyn Triplett, Project Manager and Production
Coordinator, Digital Curation Services
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by May 1st, 2011.
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