Interns

The Library staff welcomes the opportunity to work with interns.  Some staff members actually began here as interns, so we understand that an internship is supposed to be a learning experience.  We are committed to making your internship an educational experience that will serve your academic and career needs.  The work our interns do is critical to the Library; it is not busy work!

To apply for an internship, please fill out an intern application form at http://www.mdhs.org/involved_intern_app.html

Please note: The Library will accept applications at any time; you do not have to meet the deadlines listed on the application page.

We accept interns year-round.   Interns may be undergraduate or graduate students.  While most of our interns are history or library science majors, we also have had successful interns from a variety of fields.  We strive to match interns' assignments with their interests.  We will work with you to ensure that your internship fulfills the requirements of your school for hours, type of work, production of a written report or product, evaluation, and whatever other requirements your school might have.

Among the tasks which interns typically work on are:

• processing of manuscript or photograph collections (arranging, describing, and housing them)
• creating subject guides (guides to the Library's resources in a specific area, such as Civil War history or women's history)
• creating abstracts and finding aids for oral history collections
• digitizing photograph or other image collections

If you have any questions about a possible internship, please feel free to e-mail the Libray at library_dept@mdhs.org and discuss what you'd like to do.