Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Internship Experiences

Student workers exploring an exhibition on Level 8 of McGoogan Library.

McGoogan Library offers a limited number of student internships on a semester basis. We are currently unable to provide paid internship experiences, but we are able to interview applicants interested in experiences for course credit or skill building. 

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

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
  • recommendation of faculty or internship supervisor
  • document outlining program requirements
Items can be emailed to history@unmc.edu. 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.

Application Deadlines

 Deadline Type Summer Fall/Spring

Applications received for consideration

 March 15 May 15

Applicant notification

 April 15 June 15

Estimated start date (negotiable)

 1st week of June 1st week of September

Estimated end date (negotiable)

 1st week of August 1st week of May

Schedule requirements (all semesters)

Minimum of 4 hours per shift, Monday-Friday

Total hours (all semesters)

Determined by credit requirements of home institution
Application Deadlines