Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

10-26-2022

Abstract

The University of Nebraska Archives and Special Collections’ internship program was born of the pandemic and has evolved into a structured, sustainable, and mutually beneficial internship program. We, along with archivists everywhere, rushed to modify and create digital projects that would sustain us and our student employees and interns, during an unknown stretch of working from home. While this short-term project creation worked during the height of the pandemic, we needed something more structured for the students and sustainable for archivists. This led us to develop an internship program that centered on a mutually beneficial framework and a healthy work environment. Through this session, we hope to provide resources for our archival colleagues who are creating new or modifying existing internship programs. We will address project planning, framework design, documentation, piloting the program, and continual assessment. We will walk through our program elements and workflows, sharing what we changed along the way and why. The design of this program facilitates sustainability through creating projects that are respectful of archivists’ workload and student needs. We hope to provide students with a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and support they can carry with them to their academic programs and careers.

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This was presented at Society of Georgia Archivists annual meeting, fall 2022

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