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Library Scholar Internships

Library Scholar interns benefit from project-based learning that produces high-impact, online content. Library scholar interns work in collaboration with academic programs and each other to build skills in teamwork, problem solving, communications, and research. Library Scholar interns lead projects such as: researching and writing for the web, curating exhibits and engagement programs, creating presentations, and text layout and digitization for the Humboldt State University Press. Interns are paid and receive course credit as well as credit for their online productions.

Thanks to a bequest from Malcolm Buchanan ‘50, HSU Library provides paid credit-based student internships to HSU students. This powerful digital humanities experience with hands-on research and project based learning combines work with archives, manuscripts and rare books.  You can support this valuable program, too! 

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Digital Media Internship

The Digital Media Lab (DML) encourages interested students to apply for a new Digital Media Student Internship. DML interns will work with and assist other students on developing digital media projects, primarily video, audio, photo and web-based projects. This includes learning and teaching about the DML equipment and software that is available to all HSU students. This semester-long internship will provide interns with hands-on experience creating a variety of digital media projects as well as learning design-thinking approaches to planning projects.

The HSU Digital Media Lab is a space where all students, staff and faculty can work on and get assistance with creating digital media projects, such as video, audio, photo and web-based projects. The DML houses a variety of software, including Adobe Creative Cloud, Camtasia, iMovie and GarageBand. The DML also provides a variety of equipment for checkout, including video and still cameras, microphones, a 3D scanner, a 360-degree camera, and more. In addition, the DML provides programs and drop-in services to spark creativity and assist people with their projects. Whether working on class assignments or creating a project on their personal time, the DML is an integral space on campus for developing and learning about digital media projects.

DML Interns will work on a variety of projects and will be responsible for a variety of tasks, including but not limited to:

  • Creating digital media projects
  • Assisting others with their digital media projects
  • Promoting the DML on campus
  • Troubleshooting problems with students using DML equipment and/or software
  • Developing and hosting programs to promote the DML and digital literacy
  • Contributing to the DML documentation (user manuals & guides, tutorials, webpages, videos, etc.)

Learning outcomes:

The production-centered outcomes of the internship mean that students will have:

  • Developed and presented programs that are planned using connected learning (interest powered, academically oriented, production centered, shared purpose, openly networked and peer-supported) and/or design-thinking (empathize, define, ideate, prototype & test) models for teaching and learning digital media skills
  • Assisted students to problem solve digital media projects using design-thinking and connected learning models (troubleshooting software and/or equipment, applying a critical eye to their work, eliciting feedback, etc.)
  • Created a portfolio of digital media objects in multiple formats using a multiple tools (multiple = at least 4), culminating in a capstone project that captures their experience

Intern scanningScholarly Communication Internship

The Library Scholar Internship will offer three students an opportunity to work in the Scholarly Communications Office to build the first open-access platform for HSU faculty and students. Over the course of one semester, students will gain hands on experience creating faculty profiles, managing copyright, promoting scholarship, and working in the open access platform Bepress.

Scholarly Communications works to foster collaboration between HSU students and faculty in advanced studies of digital humanities. Interns will be encouraged to make connections with faculty and develop projects that merge scholarly output with digital tools and/or social media.

The Library Scholar Interns will work independently and in teams to:

  • Build and organize faculty profile pages in Bepress.
  • Develop innovative ways to promote open access scholarship through social media and/or digital media.
  • Present on open access, copyright, and/or academic publishing topics to a wider audience, notably during Open Access week and the UnConference.

Learning outcomes:

  • Students will develop skills working in Bepress, an open-access platform used by 476 universities.
  • Students will be able to express and critique issues of open access, copyright, and academic publishing from first-hand experience.

This is a twelve-week academic internship program. Currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate Humboldt State University students are eligible to apply.

With their academic advisor's approval, interns will receive 2 course credits through their department's internship course or directed study. Interns will also receive a $500 scholarship after completion of the internship.

Examples of work:

The Scholarly Communications Office invited students an opportunity to build the first open-access platform for HSU faculty and student profiles. Over the course of one semester, students gained hands on experience creating faculty profiles, managing copyright, publishing scholarly works, promoting scholarship, and working in the open access platform Bepress. Scholarly Communications works to foster collaboration between HSU students and faculty in advanced studies of digital humanities. Interns were encouraged to make connections with faculty and develop projects that merged scholarly output with technological tools and social media.

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students in archivesHumboldt State University Library Scholar Internship - Special Collections & Redwood National Park

The Library's Special Collections invites current students to submit an application for the Humboldt State University Library Scholar Internship. This internship offers students an opportunity to work with the Humboldt Room and Redwood National Park to gain valuable experience processing collections, creating finding aids, and designing both physical and digital exhibits. Over the course of a semester, students will have hands-on experience in special collections, archives, public history, and museum studies as a profession.

The HSU Library Special Collections is home to rare books, photographs, documents, historic maps, oral histories, and media. The University Archives includes documents related to the history of Humboldt State. Interns in the Library Scholars program will be introduced to a variety of archival skills such as processing collections, digital projects, preparing exhibits, conducting research, and marketing Special Collections. Examples of past intern projects include digital exhibits, interactive maps, finding aids, and blogs.

The Library Scholar Intern will work in a team to complete a variety of projects. Team roles and duties will be tailored to the talents and interests of the intern. In addition to a large group project, Library Scholars may be required to:

  • Maintain an internship log, including experiences and challenges that they encountered over the course of their project.
  • Complete training assignments and blog posts.
  • Assist in processing new accessions: gaining basic physical and intellectual control of manuscript collections, preparing collection guides and marketing collections.
  • Create digital projects: scanning fragile and unique material, creating metadata, working with OMEKA and BePress to exhibit and provide access to material.
  • Contribute to the Special Collection and Library social media accounts, including: Tumblr, HistoryPin, and Flickr.
  • Assist with archival preservation and rehousing of materials.

For a sampling of our unique collections, please explore the Special Collections website.

This is a semester long, paid academic internship. Currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate Humboldt State University students are eligible to apply.  With their academic advisor's approval, interns will receive 2 course credits (total of 90 hours).

Application Process

Please email a copy of the following materials to Carly Marino at carly.marino@humboldt.edu:

The final application deadline for Fall 2017 is Thursday, June 8, 2017. If you have any additional questions, please email the Special Collections Librarian, Carly Marino at carly.marino@humboldt.edu.

InternsExamples of work:

Digital Exhibits

Interactive Maps

Finding Aids

  • Alternate Waste Disposal Collection Finding Aid: library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/AltWasteAid.html

Publicity and Social Media

Now after this internship, the Humboldt Room isn’t just a resource it’s also a place I find relaxing, which is why next semester I plan on stopping by to scan more journals. It’s like a second extension of home. I felt out of place my first semester here and being an intern made me feel like part of the school and felt better about my choice to attend HSU.
--Cathlyn Garibay (Library Scholar Intern, Spring 2016)

 

Spring 2016 Intern group List of Library Scholar Interns

Fall 2016

  • Brittani Alberto, Redwood National Park/Special Collections
  • Victoria Bruner, Digital Media Lab
  • Blanca Drapeau, Redwood National Park/Special Collections
  • Luke Wages, Redwood National Park/Special Collections

Summer 2016

  • Albert Bernales, Special Collections
  • Melitta Jackson, Special Collections
  • Christine Emerson, Special Collections
  • Meghan Ueland, Special Collections
  • Luke Wages, Special Collections

Spring 2016

  • Xi Bromley, Special Collections
  • Victoria Bruner, Special Collections
  • Blanca Drapeau, Special Collections
  • Cathlyn Garibay, Special Collections
  • Alexandria Jones, Special Collections
  • Nicole Martensen, Special Collections
  • KayCie Voigt, Special Collections

Fall 2015

  • Brittani Alberto, Special Collections
  • Jorge Ambriz, Special Collections
  • Jacqueline Farrington, Special Collections
  • Christopher Villa, Special Collections

Summer 2015

  • Schay Dowell, Special Collections
  • Joe Naranjo, Special Collections
  • Wyatt Reno, Special Collections

Spring 2015

  • Chris Bunce, Special Collections
  • Colin Fulton, Special Collections
  • Alex Garcia, Special Collections
  • Audrey Blair, Special Collections
  • Victoria Bruner, Special Collections
  • Jessica Chapman, Special Collections
  • Ben Cohen, Special Collections
  • Jacqueline Langeland, Special Collections
  • Nicole Williams, Special Collections

Fall 2014

  • Grace Rotwein, Special Collections

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