Internships & EmploymentThe Special Collections Research Center is pleased to offer unique opportunities to researchers, those entering our profession, and students. Please read on below to learn more about the types of opportunities.
Dana Fellowships
The Charles A. Dana Foundation generously sponsors a graduate teaching assistant position during the regular academic year in the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library. Primary duties consist in assisting the Center's curators, to whom the position reports, in preparing and delivering subject-oriented instructional presentations using the Center's rare book, manuscript, and archival collections to undergraduate and graduate students and other groups. Additional duties may include bibliographical or background research on the Center's holdings, preparation of collection inventories and finding aids, assistance with exhibitions, and other projects of a curatorial nature. The term of the assistantship is one regular academic year, consisting of consecutive fall and spring semesters. The assistantship carries a stipend and a full-tuition scholarship.
For more information and application procedures, please refer to SU's online job application site. Choose the option to "search open positions," select "graduate/teaching/research assistantship" and scan results list for "Graduate Assistant - Special Collections Research Center". For more information please contact SCRC.
Internships in Public Services
SCRC Public Services internships are available for graduate students working towards library and information science degrees. Interns’ primary duties include researching and responding to remote reference questions and working shifts on the Reading Room desk, where the intern will register and orient Reading Room patrons and answer in-person reference questions. Internships also include a special project as assigned.
Internships are offered per semester on a case-by-case basis. Please send your resume and a letter of interest to Nicolette Dobrowolski.
Collections Management and Processing
Museum Studies Intern Patricia Elkovitch Processes Carey Orr Editorial Cartoons
Working towards her Masters in Museum Studies, intern Patricia Elkovitch began the processing of Carey Orr Collection of editorial cartoons. This collection, one of the signature collections among the 72 held by the Special Collections Research Center, is comprised of over 4700 editorial cartoons spanning the years 1916 - 1962. The collection is currently housed in a series of filing cabinets at the Hawkins Building, with the only access points a listing of the quantity of items for a given year. Working with a database that was developed based on researcher questions and preservation and access needs, Patricia inventoried and rehoused 877 items. The database will be applicable to all the editorial cartoons and will be fully searchable by keyword, "title", dates, cartoonist, and other fields, allowing an unprecedented level of access across collections. The items are also being individually labeled, rehoused into folders, and boxed. Though not yet complete, the database will be made available on the web, allowing us to gather feedback from researchers and staff. Due to the large volume of editorial cartoons, this will be an ongoing project providing many internship opportunities for students from a wide variety of programs, among them Museum Studies and IST.
Brodsky Internships in Library Conservation
The Brodsky Endowment for Library Conservation is proud to present internship opportunities for students interested in learning more about library conservation and preservation issues by working in SCRC's Conservation Lab.
Conservation Internships
These internships are designed for pre-professional graduate students completing requirements in a certified conservation training program such as that at the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at the University of Texas. Internship duration is variable ranging from a few weeks to an academic year.
Independent Study in the Book Arts
These independent study opportunities allow students to learn more about the book arts. Activities can include directed readings in the history of the book and book arts and working hands-on to develop proficiency in a variety of book structures. This independent study could be attractive to students who have completed PRT 552 (Book Arts), want to focus their work, or are interested in pursuing the study of book arts in graduate school.
