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-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Flahive [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:56 PM To: Archives & Archivists (A&A) List Subject: [archives] Paid Archives Internship, Prescott, AZ Paid Library & Archives Internship Sharlot Hall Museum Library and Archives Prescott, Arizona Summer 2008 Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona is offering a paid internship for students of museum studies, history, library science, and the humanities. The Sharlot Hall Museum Library and Archives, now located in a new state-of-the-art facility, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public historic materials relating to the Central Mountain Region of Arizona with an emphasis on Prescott, Yavapai County, and Northern Arizona. The Archives contains over 2,000,000 documents, 120,000 photographic images, 4,000 maps and a 5,000-volume research library. Additional information about the Museum can be found at www.sharlot.org/archives. Our paid internship offers an opportunity to gain practical experience in a revered Arizona historical research center. The intern will be responsible for arranging and describing backlogged collections, cataloging library materials on the Yavapai Library Network, digitizing and describing images, maps, and audio files for the Arizona Memory Project (www.azmemory.lib.az.us), providing research services, and duties as assigned. Required knowledge, skills, and experience include library cataloging, digitization of historic photographs, arrangement and description of manuscript and photograph collections, creation of finding aids and inventories, and basic preservation of archival materials. The stipend for this internship is $3,000.00 to be paid in two weeks installments. The individual selected will be expected to work 36 hours per week for 10 weeks from late May to early August. Interested applicants should submit a resume and a letter of intent with references to Sharlot Hall Museum Intern Search Committee, 415 W. Gurley Street, Prescott, AZ 86301. Please, no e-mail or fax applications. Applications must be received by May 1, 2007. Questions? Contact Ryan Flahive, Archivist at [log in to unmask] or (928) 445-3122 xt.15 for more information. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o The ARCHIVES & ARCHIVISTS (A&A) LIST is sponsored by the Society of American Archivists. To post to the list, send messages to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe or to modify your subscription settings, log in at: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/person/ListServ.html To view the A&A List Terms of Participation, visit: http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp A&A List Coordinator: Kerwin R. So [log in to unmask]