Internships at UCLA

Internship, Preservation Administration
Internship, Conservation Treatment
UCLA

The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering two internships
for the summer of 2011. Application deadline is April 29, 2011.

The visiting internship program offers capstone experiences to
individuals enrolled in graduate preservation or conservation
education and provides pre-program experiences to qualified students
who are applying for Masters-level training in conservation.

Preservation Administration

    The intern will work with the preservation officer to complete a
    project in one of the following areas: audit and assessment of
    the condition of a library collection, development of disaster
    response and business continuity plans, or review and quality
    control of a preservation process. The intern will work with
    staff and collections to collect data that guides preservation
    decisions and assists with project management. Typical projects
    include collection surveys, environmental monitoring, business
    continuity planning and review of materials for preservation
    contract services.

Conservation Treatment

    This internship will provide experience to pre-program students
    for individuals planning to attend graduate level conservation
    programs. The internship will focus on conservation decision
    making, treatment and documentation for library and archival
    collections. The conservation intern will work under the
    supervision of the collections conservator to perform repair or
    make enclosures for materials selected from the collections.
    Relevant literature will be reviewed prior to conservation
    treatment and all projects will be documented.

About the UCLA Library Preservation Department: The UCLA Library
Preservation Department supports the Library's mission to develop,
organize, and preserve collections for optimal use. The Preservation
Department provides stewardship for the intellectual record in the
formats required by contemporary scholars and ensures the
safekeeping of the artifacts that are entrusted to the UCLA Library.
The Preservation Department includes the Library Conservation Center
(LCC), a state-of-the-art conservation lab that provides
conservation services collections in all units of the UCLA Library.
The LCC is guided by the best current practices of the book and
paper conservation field and the Code of Ethics of the American
Institute for the Conservation of Artistic and Historic works.

For examples of preservation department activities, visit:

    <URL:http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/preservation>

These internships are 75% FTE (30 hours/week) for an eight week
period, with a flexible start date. Interns will be hired as Limited
Appointment employees, with a salary rate of $2,348/mo. (full-time
rate) and will be eligible for UCLA Core level benefits.

Please submit a letter of interest, a current resume, and contact
information for three professional references to:

    Jacob Nadal
    Preservation Officer
    UCLA Library Preservation Department
    Box 957230
    11020 Kinross Avenue
    Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230

Application deadline is April 29, 2011

The UCLA Library is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action/ADA-compliant employer. Under federal law, the University of
California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to
work in the United States as established by providing documents
specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Kristen St.John


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