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The Special Collections Research Center has had many student wage employees over the years.\u00a0 Undergraduate and graduate student assistants are invaluable to our archival processing and digitization projects, research services, and oral history program. \u00a0Students\u00a0have also been part of our records management team.\u00a0 It is safe to say that SCRC wouldn’t function the same way without them!<\/p>\n

However, as critical as student workers are for SCRC, it’s not all about what our students can do for us.\u00a0 As a special collections unit at an educational institution, a major part of our mission is to train and teach the students who work here. \u00a0Generally, SCRC has employed paid student workers, but internships for academic\u00a0credit are even more focused on education than student wage jobs. \u00a0As Lisa M. Sjoberg from Concordia College notes, “the goal of internships is to create a learning-centered experience for students to engage in an authentic environment that couples theory and practice.”1 \u00a0In support of this goal, SCRC is thrilled to announce a new internship program that will provide undergraduate students with course credit and with targeted education in specific areas of special collections work.<\/p>\n

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SCRC Processing Intern Zac Greenfield at work on the Vincent Callahan Collection.<\/p><\/div>
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To kick off our new internship initiative, two history undergraduate interns are working in SCRC for the Summer 2017 semester.\u00a0 Zac Greenfield and Bill Keeler began their special collections journeys with a scavenger hunt in our closed stacks on their first day, and they have each taken to their respective projects with great enthusiasm. \u00a0 Zac’s primary focus is on archival processing, and he is currently arranging and describing material collected by Vincent Callahan, a Northern Virginia politician.\u00a0 Bill, meanwhile, is working in research services and is helping Research Services Coordinator Rebecca Bramlett develop primary source literacy curriculum. \u00a0Stay tuned throughout the summer, as we’ll be posting updates on Zac and Bill’s work, as well as information about future internships in SCRC for credit during the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters.<\/p>\n

1. Lisa M. Sjoberg, “Internships and High-Impact Learning in Archives,” in Management: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections,\u00a0<\/em>ed. Kate Theimer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), 29-30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Special Collections Research Center has had many student wage employees over the years.\u00a0 Undergraduate and graduate student assistants are invaluable to our archival processing and digitization projects, research services, and oral history program. \u00a0Students\u00a0have also been part of our records management team.\u00a0 It is safe to say that SCRC wouldn’t function the same way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,3],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-news","tag-interns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-1HI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7468,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=7468","url_meta":{"origin":6554,"position":0},"title":"SCRC is Thankful for Student Assistants","author":"admin","date":"November 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Special Collections Research Center's full time staff forms the core of our workforce, but we would not be able to efficiently arrange and describe collections and make them available to our users without the dedicated service of our student wage workers and interns. 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