Summer 2020 Collections Management and Digitization Internship
About the Arden Craft Shop Museum
The mission of the Arden Craft Shop Museum (ACSM) is to collect and exhibit materials and artifacts related to the Ardens, which include the villages of Arden, Ardentown, and Ardencroft. The Arden Craft Shop Museum seeks to educate the community on the Ardens’ history as single-tax communities in addition to how the roles of theater, craftsmanship, art, and other aspects of life have affected the development of the Ardens as a close-knit community. Visit www.ardencraftshopmuseum.com for more information.
Internship Description
The primary purpose of this internship is to rehouse, describe, digitize, and create metadata for the Arden Archives Photographic Collection, ensuring that it is accessible to community members and researchers and better preserved for the future. The intern will work on other collections management projects as time allows.
The Arden Archives Photographic Collection is a collaboratively amassed collection from the villages of the Ardens (Arden, Ardentown, and Ardencroft). The subjects include village residents, homes and other buildings, theatre, festivals and other events, and more.
Outcomes
The primary goals of the internship are to:
The intern will have learned skills in:
Qualifications
Please contact us at ardencraftshopmuseum@gmail.com if you are interested in applying.
About the Arden Craft Shop Museum
The mission of the Arden Craft Shop Museum (ACSM) is to collect and exhibit materials and artifacts related to the Ardens, which include the villages of Arden, Ardentown, and Ardencroft. The Arden Craft Shop Museum seeks to educate the community on the Ardens’ history as single-tax communities in addition to how the roles of theater, craftsmanship, art, and other aspects of life have affected the development of the Ardens as a close-knit community. Visit www.ardencraftshopmuseum.com for more information.
Internship Description
The primary purpose of this internship is to rehouse, describe, digitize, and create metadata for the Arden Archives Photographic Collection, ensuring that it is accessible to community members and researchers and better preserved for the future. The intern will work on other collections management projects as time allows.
The Arden Archives Photographic Collection is a collaboratively amassed collection from the villages of the Ardens (Arden, Ardentown, and Ardencroft). The subjects include village residents, homes and other buildings, theatre, festivals and other events, and more.
Outcomes
The primary goals of the internship are to:
- Rehouse and assign unique identifiers to a collection of photographs dating from the early to late twentieth century
- Create web-quality and archival-quality digital scans of collection photographs
- Create descriptive metadata for digitized photographs using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
- Add digitized photographs and accompanying metadata to ACSM’s online database
The intern will have learned skills in:
- The physical care of photographic collections, including what types of housing materials are appropriate for photos and slides.
- Establishing intellectual control over photographic collections, including the creation of metadata for a large collection of visual materials.
- Using technology to scan and store archival material, including the appropriate resolution and size of files.
- The process of making a large photographic collection available to the public for research, including working in an AirTable database.
Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program working toward a degree in history, art history, museum studies, or library and information science (or other closely related field)
- Detail-oriented with the ability to be flexible
- Skills in organizing resources and establishing priorities
- Good written and verbal communications skills, with strong command of the English language
- Experience working with museum collections and/or archival collections preferred
- Experience working with content management systems (CMS) preferred
- Ability and willingness to work independently with limited supervision
Please contact us at ardencraftshopmuseum@gmail.com if you are interested in applying.
