Summer Archives Internships
The Pearce Collections, the Pearce Civil War Museum and Western Art
Collection, and the Navarro College Archives announce two internship
positions for summer 2004. Established in 1946, Navarro College is a
two-year college located in Corsicana, Texas approximately sixty miles
southeast of Dallas and one hundred fifty miles northeast of Austin.
The archival collections are divided into four main areas --- Community
Archives, College Archives, Special Collections, and Rare Books ---
which facilitate research on the United States Civil War, the historical
development of Navarro College and its service area, and Navarro
County. Of particular interest is the Pearce Civil War Collection, a
significant research collection of letters, diaries, journals,
photographs, and artifacts from the Civil War era. The collection
includes material from most of the major political and military leaders
from both sides of the conflict, and an ever-increasing number of
soldiers' letters from both the Union and Confederate armies. In
October 2003, the Pearce Collections Museum opened on the campus of
Navarro College. The museum features a Western art gallery, a Civil War
museum, and an archives and reference area.
Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the College and Special
Collections Archivist, the intern will be exposed to a variety of
routine professional archival activities including acquisition,
appraisal, arrangement and description of archival collections;
reference services; and development of exhibits. The intern will work
primarily with the Pearce Civil War Collection and will select one major
collection to process. The intern will also work with volunteers from
the Pearce Civil War Service Project Elderhostel Program and the Navarro
College Archives and Pearce Collections Volunteer Program. Depending on
the successful candidate’s skills and interest, the intern may also help
develop educational programming for the museum.
Qualifications: Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate
program in Archives, Library Science, Museum Studies, or Public History;
have completed an introductory archival processing course; be able to
work independently and efficiently; and have excellent oral and written
communication skills.
Preferred: Graduate or undergraduate coursework in American history,
particularly the Civil War era. Graduate or undergraduate coursework in
museum education, or museum experience.
Work schedule: Ten-week position (40 hours per week), May 17 through
July 30, 2003. (Some flexibility in scheduling.)
Stipend: $3000 (does not include travel or moving expenses) payable in
three monthly installments; room and board in college housing at no
charge.
To apply send a letter of application, resume, list of graduate
coursework, and three references to:
Julie Holcomb
College and Special Collections Archivist
Pearce Collections at Navarro College
3100 W. Collin St.
Corsicana, Texas 75110
Deadline for application: April 2, 2004.
For additional information write to: [log in to unmask] or
visit our website http://www.pearcecollections.us/. The Pearce
Collections Museum will be represented in the exhibit hall at the Texas
Association of Museums annual meeting in Waco, March 30 through April
2. Ms. Holcomb will be available to accept applications at that time.
--
Julie Holcomb, MLIS, CA
College and Special Collections Archivist
Pearce Collections at Navarro College
Navarro College Archives
3100 W. Collin St.
Corsicana, Texas 75110
Phone: 903-875-7438 ~ Fax: 903-875-7593
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Internet: http://www.pearcecollections.us/ or
http://www.navarrocollege.edu/library/archives/
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they
please; they do not make it under
circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly
found, given, and transmitted
from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a
nightmare on the brain of
the living." Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire
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