[BKARTS] Preservation Internship at Cornell University Library

["Peter D. Verheyen" <verheyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cornell University Library was funded by the Institute for Museum and 
Library Services  (IMLS) to conduct a preservation internship program 
focusing on Native American Library staff. The program focuses on 
preservation management of library materials and sound conservation 
practice, and is designed to build a preservation infrastructure in tribal 
colleges and universities via a train-the-trainers model. The program will 
prepare the interns to train other librarians, archivists, and technicians 
in the basic book repair, rebinding, enclosure construction, preservation 
of work of art on paper, photographs, reformatting techniques, and other 
related hands-on skills, as well as preservation program development 
through workshops, seminars, on-site surveys, simulations, needs 
assessments, and the establishment of a regional disaster plan and response 
capability.

By focusing on the train-the-trainers model, this program will have an 
impact well beyond the interns, and will lead to the development of direct 
tribal responsibility for indigenous cultural heritage materials. As with 
other internship programs that Cornell has conducted, the Cornell staff 
will continue to act as mentors beyond the period of the project. The 
program of training will provide Native American tribal colleges with the 
ability to greatly extend the life of their cultural heritage library and 
archives materials, to conduct fruitful studies of their collections and 
services, and to prepare viable proposals for external grant funding to 
support Native American library and archives collections.

The internship will be held from June 5, 2006 ? August 11, 2006. There is 
funding available for travel to Ithaca, NY and a $5000  stipend for each 
intern. There is no charge for housing.

Please contact Barbara  B. Eden (beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx) for an application.

Barbara B. Eden
Director
IRIS/ Department of Preservation
and Collection Maintenance
Cornell University Library
B15 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation
email:  beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx
phone: 607-255-5291
fax:    607-254-7493

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