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Forwarded to STHC-L from ARCHIVES. -----Original Message----- From: Alison L Oswald [mailto:oswalda@si.edu] Sent: Wed 12/19/2007 7:03 AM To: Archives & Archivists (A&A) List Subject: [archives] Lemelson Center Archival Internship Opportunity, Summer 2008 Lemelson Center Archival Internship, Summer 2008 NOTE: The Lemelson Center Archival Internship Program will remain active during the Museum's renovation. We will accept applications for Summer 2008. For further information please contact Alison Oswald at oswalda@si.edu. 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 $4,000 plus a travel allowance. 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 12,000 feet of holdings in a wide range of subject areas and a full time staff of eleven. Interns must be enrolled in a graduate degree program or show evidence of acceptance to a graduate degree program. Interns must have completed graduate course work in archival, library, or information management, and/or graduate course work in American history, American Studies, Museum Studies, Public History, or another area that relates to the history of invention and innovation in American society. Recent graduates may also apply. Please consult the FAQ at: http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/research_intern_faq.aspx Applicants should submit one copy of the application form, available from the Archives Center or online at: http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/archives_intern_app.doc; two letters of recommendation; official academic transcripts (undergraduate and graduate); and an essay discussing their interest in the archival profession, the history of invention and how this internship will benefit them. Mail or email completed application form and all materials requested to Alison L. Oswald. All materials must be postmarked by March 3, 2008 for consideration. Offers will be made by April 7, 2008. Internships begin on or after June 2, 2008 Contact: Alison L. Oswald, Archivist National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution Archives Center P.O. Box 37012 Room 1110/MRC 601 Washington, DC 20013-7012 Phone: (202) 633-3726 Fax: (202) 786.2453 Email: oswalda@si.edu WWW: www.si.edu/lemelson/lemelson/internships.html ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2007 Message Index |