Summer 2026 Internships

Section: Special Collections, Oral History Unit
Description: The intern will assist the Oral Historian in the description and arrangement of the collection. This includes metadata clean up, summarization, and finding aid creation. The intern will also work with the creation and editing of transcriptions. The goal of the internship is to increase overall interview accessibility and support digital uploading.
Major Tasks Involved:
•    This position will include indexing, transcribing, metadata work, and summarization. 
•    A blog will be required as well as a presentation at the conclusion of the internship. 
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in public history or similar, minimum. Working toward a master’s degree in public history or library science preferred. The position would require students to work with digital access, transcription, and indexing. Some oral history experience preferable.
Estimated hours: 20 hours/week 
Able to work remotely? Remote with optional Hybrid work at the Western Regional Archives in Asheville, NC. 
 

Section: Digital Services, Digital Access Branch
Description: Understanding metadata, the digital collections, and the Discover Online Catalog (DOC) through the lens of subjects guides. The anticipated outcomes of this internship are: Webpage HTML material. Spreadsheets for upload of subjects into AXAEM and NCDC. A post on the archives blog, History For All the People. Spreadsheet(s) documenting controlled vocabulary (CV) progress and recommendations.
Major Tasks Involved:

• For GASR and T&C items available in Quartex, prepare the subjects from the guides for bulk upload to the digital collections as part of the scope and content notes.
• Convert the frontmatter of the guides to an HTML page that explains each subject and how to search for them in Quartex.
• Prepare the subjects for AXAEM as well. Work with State Agency Archivist to determine appropriate level of adding metadata for cases where materials are only in AXAEM at folder, box, or series level.
• Convert the individuals listed in the second table in the T&C guide to the indexing module.
• Audit controlled vocabularies and make recommendations for metadata cleanup and future tools to assist in metadata creation.
• Other tasks based on intern interest 

Section: Special Collections
Description: This intern will work under the supervision of the Organization Records Archivist to process new and backlogged archival collections. The intern will learn how to survey a collection, create a processing plan, arrange, rehouse and label materials, and create descriptive metadata for the collection in a finding aid that will be published in the online catalog. 
Major Tasks Involved:

• Review and analyze an unprocessed archival collection.
• Create a processing plan, determine what supplies are needed and propose an arrangement.
• Process the collection (arrange, rehouse, label).
• Research and write a finding aid, including historical context, scope and contents, and an inventory list.

Qualifications: Graduate students studying archives with some theoretical knowledge of archival principles.
Estimated hours: Flexible up to 16 hours/week 
Able to work remotely? In person only at our downtown Raleigh location.
 

Section: Digital Services, Digital Access Branch
Description: The Aycock Brown Photograph digital collection (AV.5127) features a variety of images that capture the Outer Banks during a key time in its development as a popular tourist destination. The images reflect the local economy, lives of residents, tourists, wildlife, and attractions. The Aycock Brown project is part of the Digital Access Branch’s ongoing effort to highlight the collections of the archives regional branch the Outer Banks History Center. As the intern, you will assist in the digitization process by describing and creating image metadata using institutional guidelines to enhance digital retrieval of the collection. Additionally, you will highlight photos you find interesting and create social media content and a blog to promote the collection.
Major Tasks Involved:

• image description
• metadata creation
• flag images for future social media use
• indexing
• social media caption creation
• other tasks based on intern interest

Qualifications: Current graduate student or recent graduate from a library and information science program (or related discipline).  
Estimated hours: 10 hours/week 
Able to work remotely? Remote with optional hybrid work onsite at our downtown Raleigh location.