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Internship: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC: Summer 2001)

• Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:01:53 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
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• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Internship: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC: Summer 2001)
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Russell Johnson


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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:42:41 -0500
From: Alison Oswald 
Subject: Internship Opportunity, Summer 2001
Sender: Archives & Archivists 


The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and 
Innovation at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian 
Institution, offers full time, ten week, archival internship 
opportunities for graduate students each summer.  The internship 
stipend is $3,000 plus a travel allowance.  The stipend is not taxed 
and housing and benefits are not provided.  The internship will:

        *       Enable new professionals to understand, identify, and manage the historical 
                records of American invention and innovation.
	
        *       Expose interns to the Museum's rich historical collections in the history of       	
                technology and twentieth century material culture.

        *       Provide hands-on experience with archival collections that document invention 
                and innovation.

        *       Create finding aids to collections documenting invention and innovation.

        *       Engage interns in discussion of archival issues and practices and provide a 
                wide range of professional experiences within the Museum.

Internships are located in the Museum's Archives Center, a manuscripts 
and special collections repository with more than 10,000 feet of 
holdings in a wide range of subject areas and a full time staff of 
fourteen.  Interns must be enrolled in a graduate degree program and 
have completed  graduate course work in archival administration and/or 
graduate course work in American History or another area that relates 
to the history of invention and innovation in American society.  Recent 
graduates may also apply. 	

Applicants should submit a completed application form; two letters of 
recommendation; official academic transcripts; and an essay discussing 
their interest in this internship.  Mail completed application form and 
all materials requested to Alison L. Oswald.  All materials must be 
postmarked by March 5, 2001 for consideration.  Offers will be made by 
April 2, 2001.  Internships begin on or after June 4, 2001.

                        Requests for information and applications :                                                                     	

                        Alison L. Oswald, Archivist                                             	
                        National Museum of American History                     	
                        Smithsonian Institution                                                 	
                        Archives Center                                                                                 	
                        Room C340/MRC 601                                                       	
                        Washington, DC 20560                    	
                        phone: 202.357.3780                             	
                        fax: 202.786.2453                               	
                        e-mail: OSWALDA@NMAH.SI.EDU     	

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