Archives Internship (September-May)
Archives Internship at New York Public Radio
Interns at NYPR are given a robust internship program with hands-on responsibilities. The goal of our internship program is to provide our interns with a substantive, meaningful work experience so that each intern concludes the internship period with demonstrable skills in their area of interest, plus knowledge of public radio, in general.
The NYPR Radio Archives currently maintains a collection of more than 60,000 cataloged broadcast recordings dating from June 1927 to the present. These recordings cover the gamut of the station's activities as one of the nation's earliest public broadcasters.
This internship will provide an opportunity for a qualified student or recent graduate to collaborate with the Archives’ staff on several ongoing digitization and access projects. NYPR Archives will place particular emphasis on getting materials ready for our multi-year digitization project and for ingestion into the station’s Digital Asset Management System; this is an exciting opportunity to see from the inside how a large, complex reformatting project works.
Responsibilities
- Locate and describe original audio assets
- Control audio and data quality of audio assets before and after reformatting
- Organize physical items
- Assist Archives staff in improving workflows
Qualifications
- Enrollment in an accredited library school or archives program
- Familiarity with structured data in xml and csv formats
- Familiarity with audio archives, including legacy formats and metadata schemas such as PBCore, DublinCore or RDF
- Excellent writing and research skills
Additional Information
This role is a paid internship with eligibility for college credit. NYPR internships pay $17.50/hour. The internship will commence on September 12th and run through May 5th and interns are expected to work 15 hours per week. The exact schedule and hours will be determined with the finalist.
This internship will operate in a hybrid (remote/in-person) environment: we expect candidates to work in our New York SoHo office at least eight hours per week. In order to be eligible, you must be authorized to work in the United States and live/work in a commutable distance of our office.
Given this role will operate from our office, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is required, unless NYPR has approved a specific religious or medical exemption in advance of the first day of work. At this time, NYPR defines being fully vaccinated as having received two Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations or one Johnson and Johnson vaccination.
Application Requirements
Submit a resume and a cover letter telling us a bit about yourself and why you want to be an intern in the NYPR Archives Department.
Only complete applications will be considered.
Application deadline is Wednesday, July 20th at 5pm ET.
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