Internship Experiences
McGoogan Library offers a limited number of paid student internships on a semester basis. We will make every effort to provide paid internship experiences for applicants as budget allows. If applicants are also interested in unpaid internship experiences for course credit or experience building, please state that in the application materials.
Qualifications:
- Must be enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies at a college or university
- Do not need prior experience working with medical collections, special collections, museums or libraries. Training on object handling and database use will be provided
- Will be paid bi-monthly at an hourly rate of $15. Students may elect to obtain course credit within a course of study at their home institution as well
What to Expect
Interns will be assigned projects that could include the following types of activities:
Types of Activities: inventory, rehousing artifacts, creating finding aids, and/or data entry for university archives, rare books, historical artifacts and/or artwork
Goals and Outcomes: make artifacts more accessible to the public, provide more depth to the exhibition program, and preserve historical knowledge for future generations
Types of Activities: scanning and metadata creation for documents, images, negatives, slides, bound books, etc. from processed archival collections
Goals and Outcomes: enhance public access to collections and ensure preservation of historic materials through creation of a digital surrogate
Types of Activities: inventory, refoldering collections, creating finding aids, metadata creation and/or data entry into ArchiveSpace or Preservica databases
Goals and Outcomes: make archives more accessible to the public, provide more depth to the exhibition program and preserve historical knowledge for future generations
Types of Activities: investigate provenance of objects, provide research support for oral history interviews, curate small rotating displays in the Wigton Heritage Center or the McGoogan Library, curate digital exhibitions
Goals and Outcomes: produce written documents, whether a research paper, catalog record, exhibit text, archival finding aids or audience analysis
Types of Activities: participate in department and all-staff meetings and engagement events, patron tours/research appointments, cleaning rotations in exhibition and storage areas
Goals and Outcomes: obtain the theoretical knowledge, skills and additional learning in the museum, archive and library science fields that prepares students for other positions and graduate studies
How to Apply
Students interested in applying for an internship should submit:
- a cover letter (including the semester(s) of interest)
- a resume
- at least two references
Application and Processes Deadlines
| Deadline Type | Summer | Fall/Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Application period opens | February 1 | February 1 |
| Application review period | March 15-31 | May 15-31 |
| Interviews and selection | April 1-15 | June 1-15 |
| UNMC HR processes and background check | By end of May | By end of August |
| Start date (dates negotiated with accepted applicants) | 1st week of June | Day after Labor Day |
| End date (dates negotiated with accepted applicants) | 1st week of August | 1st week of May |
| Rate of pay | $15/hr | $15/hr |
| Hours per week* | 10-20 hrs/week | 15-20 hrs/week |
| Number of weeks | 10 weeks | 30 weeks |
| Total hours | 100-120 hours | 450-600 hours |