---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Rooney <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:00 PM Subject: [AMIA-Member-L] Two Internship Opportunities: Los Angeles To: AMIA-Member-L <[email protected]>
*Job Summary: * *Video Collections Internship * The Academy houses a number of interview and oral history video collections, including: Academy Visual History Program interviews, member interviews; oral histories recorded by the Academy’s Documentary and Science & Technology Branches, the Writer’s Guild Foundation, the International Cinematographer’s Guild, the Art Directors Guild, Los Angeles Filmforum, TCM, and the Telluride Film Festival. One of our goals is to make this video material more accessible to researchers and the general public by preparing collections for migration and possible inclusion in a digital archive of oral histories. Materials in these collections have been inventoried in a very basic and non-descriptive way, and many times in ways that no longer conform to our current cataloging standards. We are looking for someone to assist our project archivist in inventories that will focus on organizing collections and creating content descriptions. Intern may also be responsible for helping to index the Academy’s Visual History Program interviews and perform some quality control on transcripts. The internship is designed to provide hands-on experience with processing video collections. The intern will learn how to inventory video according to the Academy’s standards and gain an understanding of our cataloging system and methods. Initial assignments will focus on video inspection, inventory, migration decisions, cataloging, indexing, transcript quality control, and the creation of interview abstracts and summaries. An intern may assist staff members in the Video Department and Cataloging Department coordinating video migration and improving content-specific cataloging standards. *Job Description* The project may require assistance with the creation of general scratch lists and collection profiles. Supervised by the Manager of Oral History Projects and the Archivist/Coordinator, the intern may also be assigned additional collection management tasks related to film, video, and/or sound recordings in the project’s collections, as well as have the opportunity to provide input into project development and into the creation of a controlled vocabulary specific to film industry-related interviews. The intern will be expected to commit to a 4 day a week schedule for 8 weeks in the summer, 2014, to be scheduled at the mutual convenience of the intern and staff. * To Apply**: *Please download The Academy Summer Internship Application ( http://www.oscars.org/about/employment/internship.html) and send the completed form to [email protected]. Please list job requisition *#PRO0003 *on the application where indicated. *Job Summary: * *Audio Collections Internship * The Academy Foundation’s new Oral History Projects Department is seeking a graduate intern currently enrolled in a Moving Image Archive Masters course interested in audio collections to assist in archiving, preservation, and cataloging of legacy audio material and associated materials. The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library began recording oral histories in 1948 on paper based open-reel tape, and has been recording oral histories on audio cassette since the late 1980s. These collections are now part of a new initiative and growing audiovisual collection that documents the history of filmmaking practices from a first person perspective. It is the goal of the project to migrate audio cassette collection for the goal of making the material accessible to researchers and the general public both through the library portal and in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures slated to open in 2017. The internship is designed to provide hands-on experience with audio archiving and preservation practices, and to offer experience with library/archive cataloging systems and methods. We are looking for someone to manage the preservation of audio material in the collection, and in particular perform quality control and cataloging of migrated material. The intern will work on site at the Academy Film Archive and interface with both Library and Archive staff, possibly even with outside vendors on preservation issues. *Job Responsibilities * Audio cassette inspection, sorting, inventory, migration decisions, and performing QC and cataloging. The intern’s overall role is to assist the Library’s Audio Specialist, Oral History Projects Manager and Archivist/Coordinator in audio collections archiving and preservation project tasks such as: collection assessment, digitization of highlighted interview content, improving content-specific cataloging standards, and inputting metadata. This may also include adding additional metadata to the Library’s oral history records, and helping to improve the collection and interview descriptions on Oscars.org. The intern will be expected to commit to a 4 day a week schedule for 8 weeks in the summer of 2014, to be scheduled at the mutual convenience of the intern and staff. *To Apply**: *Please download The Academy Summer Internship Application ( http://www.oscars.org/about/employment/internship.html) and send the completed form to [email protected]. Please list job requisition *#PRO002 *on the application where indicated. *** You are subscribed to AMIA-MEMBER as [email protected]. 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VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
