LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 28, 2021) The University of Kentucky Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement is excited to share three programs that provide students with potential summer and 2021-2022 academic year paid internship opportunities.
Summer Civic Leader Program
The first of these programs, the Summer Civic Leader Program, provides Federal Work-Study eligible students with the opportunity to work for eight paid hours per week with a community organization, nonprofit organization or government agency. These opportunities could be in Lexington or your hometown. In addition to the work you will complete through your internship, students will also attend professional development sessions, allowing them to grow both professionally and personally with a cohort of their peers. For more information on this program, please visit the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement website. Or, find the program application here.
Ellie Roberto | May 24, 2021
There is an endless amount of work to be done in the digital archives field. When most of the country faced job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online transcription provided Ohio University Libraries was able to pivot to remote work for staff and student workers with tasks that could be accomplished remotely. Contributing to the Libraries’ Digital Archives allowed the libraries to continue contributing to the access and discovery of library collections even when the library itself was closed.
The University Libraries’ Digital Initiatives unit (DI) has long relied on the work of student employees to enhance the digitized primary resources with transcription of cursive materials and correction of auto-recognized printed text. Already accustomed to engaging with the Digital Archives, many of them demonstrated versatility, pivoting to online transcription within a couple of weeks of the initial COVID-
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Linfield Archive
By L.M. Archer
Blame it on a storage problem. In 2008, Willamette Valley pioneer Susan Sokol Blosser turned over the reins of Sokol Blosser Winery to her children, Alex and Alison. But to truly make space for the future, she needed help tidying up the past namely 35 years of documents cluttering the winery.
“I was a history major in college, and before we started a vineyard, I worked with private manuscripts at the Southern Historical Collection (SHC), in the basement of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,” explained Sokol Blosser. “My work at the SHC gave me an appreciation for what the papers (personal letters, account books, diaries, photos, etc.) of ordinary folks, as well as prominent ones, could tell us about how they lived and what they thought. That lesson stayed with me.”