Smathers Libraries Graduate Student Internship Program, Award Announcement, May 31, 2016

I’m very excited to share that the new Smathers Libraries Graduate Internship Program has begun with 5 successful awards! Details are below on those proposals, and the next date for submission of new proposals is October 1. Read the full program information and guidelines on this exciting and important new Internship Program: http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/interns/

Smathers Libraries Graduate Internship Program
Award Announcement, May 31, 2016
The Smathers Graudate Student Internship Program has started with five successful internship proposals awarded in May 2016! Please join in congratulating the first of the awardees for the new Internship Program:

• Jessica Marcetti, Panama Canal Museum Collection Internship, 1 semester (fall 2016)
  • During this one-semester internship in Fall 2016, the Panama Canal Museum Collection (PCMC) Exhibits Intern will develop exhibits for the newly created Panama Canal Corridor Gallery in the Smathers Building. The exhibits will communicate information about the PCMC and raise public awareness of the collection and the historical significance of the Canal. In developing the exhibits plan, the intern will conduct research, select objects, develop themes, write labels and narrative text, and design exhibit layouts. The exhibits will not be installed during the internship period. The intern will conduct an assessment of unprocessed PCMC materials to identify objects for inclusion in exhibits, and will create a report recommending processing priorities. The intern also will create a plan for developing traveling exhibits based on the Corridor Gallery exhibits. (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00040770)
• Laura Spears, Creating a Culture of Assessment, 2 semesters (fall 2016 & spring 2017)
  • The Assessment Program Internship Project will support efforts to establish a culture of assessment within the Smathers Libraries by assisting with development and implementation of a data management infrastructure to include data mining and text analysis, statistical analysis and assessment protocols specific to UF Libraries’ needs. (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00040747)
• Laurie Taylor, Digital Scholarship & Publishing Intern, 3 semesters (summer 2016, fall 2016 & spring 2017)
  • The Digital Scholarship & Publishing Internship will enhance graduate student experience in DH and digital publishing, strengthen collaboration with the Libraries and Humanities Departments by serving as a co-convenor for the Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) with all event planning and implementation. In addition, the intern will support projects and activities to further develop the LibraryPress@UF, and the related Mellon Open Book project to further support and strengthen collaboration with the Libraries, Humanities Departments, and the UF Press. As the co-convenor of the DHWG, the intern will collaborate with the Libraries to help build a community of practice across campus through facilitation and interaction on the many DHWG meet-ups, DHLG meetings, and related activities, helping to plan the full year program of events, promote events, conduct outreach for events, facilitate events, and/or develop events. (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00040748)
• Laurie Taylor, Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Digital Scholarship Intern, 3 semesters (summer 2016, fall 2016 & spring 2017)
  • The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Digital Scholarship Intern will introduce a graduate student in the humanities to collaborative ways of working to support needs in the Libraries and to help build a community of practice across campus through facilitation and interaction on the many dLOC related activities, including grants where the student will be involved in preparing research and materials in support of grant writing and proposal submission (for an ACLS Digital Extension Grant, https://www.acls.org/programs/comps/, grants for a dLOC Scholar Summit, etc.) and in the permissions and curation processing for materials created by scholars in relation to the Panama Silver, Asian Gold Distributed Online Collaborative Courses. (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00040749)
• Margarita Vargas Betancourt, Curatorial Intern for Cuban Collections (fall 2016 & spring 2017)
  • The goal of this internship is to provide a graduate student the opportunity of building curatorial and archival expertise in bilingual collections. The intern will participate with curators in the organization of a bilingual physical exhibit (English/Spanish) on the presence of Cubans in Florida, which will take place during the 2017 UF Latin American Studies Annual Conference whose theme will be “Cuba, US, and Florida: The Impact of Normalization.” The institutional objective is to expand the relationship between the Center for Latin American Studies, College of the Arts, and the Latin American and Caribbean Collection by involving faculty and students from across campus in exhibit development, research, and promotion. (http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00040754)

Please see full program information and guidelines on this exciting and important new Internship Program: http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/interns/
The next deadline is October 1, and the Internship Program Committee is available to assist with questions at any point.