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Yale Graduate Student Internship
 The Lewis Walpole Library offers an internship
to a Yale graduate student who has completed the coursework
for the PhD. During the academic year 2007-2008, the internship
is offered for either the spring or the fall semester,
or both, at a stipend of $8,000 each semester. The person(s)
appointed will be expected to
work for
twenty
hours
per week. For students in a teaching year, this position may
substitute for a semester of teaching, with the approval of
the DGS. For all others, it is expected to replace rather than
supplement any teaching fellowship.
The internship is a new venture on the part
of the Library, designed to encourage Yale graduate students
to consider the rewarding possibilities of a future career
in academic libraries. It is part of a wider, nationwide program
that will also include postdoctoral fellowships in the future.
The symposium "How to do things with books: careers in
academic libraries," held in Sterling Memorial Library
in April 2003, launched this initiative at Yale, and since
then the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
has held a further planning meeting of university librarians,
deans, and provosts to carry forward the national program.
Students who are interested in applying for
the internship should write to Margaret K. Powell, Librarian,
the Lewis Walpole Library (154 Main Street, Farmington, CT
06032; 860-677-2140; margaret.powell@yale.edu),
giving details of their doctoral work, attaching a short statement
about why they would like to work in the library, and naming
two referees. Lewis Walpole Library staff will be glad to talk
with anyone who wishes to explore the possibilities before
submitting documentation.
Special Collections Internship
The Lewis Walpole Library is seeking graduate and undergraduate
students for academic internships.
Internship opportunities include curatorial work with prints
and drawings, and hands-on work
documenting eighteenth-century special collections materials.
Preferred qualifications: Graduate or upper-level undergraduate
majors in History, Literature, Art
History, or Library and Information Science.
Submit a letter of interest and names of two
references to:
Cynthia Roman,
Curator of Prints, Drawings
and Paintings
The Lewis Walpole Library
154 Main Street
Farmington, CT 06032
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