This past Winter/Spring, I completed an archival internship at WITNESS. The archives department is micro, as in just-one-super-awesome-archivist, but mighty. The experience was delightful and all that an internship should be*: informative, educational, fun and relationship building.
At the end of my experience there, I wrote an article for the WITNESS blog.
“Sitting down to work my first day as an intern in the archive department at WITNESS was exciting. I hadn’t started a new position in over two years and I was pleased to be taking steps towards transitioning from library world to the realm of archives. Though I anticipated that the material I was assigned would be difficult to view, I was completely unprepared for the emotional impact that watching human rights footage would have on me…”
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| WITNESS, Brooklyn, NY
Media Archives Intern, February 2015 – May 2015 · Performed a variety of hands-on tasks including cataloging, tape capture, digital ingest and online research. · Used various software tools to capture, analyze, view and transfer video files. · Created metadata for unpublished human rights video footage in a cataloging database. · Became knowledgeable of the processes and components of a digital archiving workflow within a small organization. |
