Digital Archives Internship
Button Museum
Chicago

Job Opening Title: Museum Digital Archives Internship

Institution/Organization Name: Button Museum

  
The Button Museum is looking for students to work with us to develop and
expand our Digital Archive. Students will gain unique and specialized
experience researching, describing, digitizing and cataloging our growing
collection of historic buttons.

  
About the Button Museum:

Joel and Christen Carter, co-curators of the Button Museum and avid collectors
of historically significant buttons, founded the museum in 2010. The mission
of the Button Museum is to show how people commemorate noteworthy times in
their lives by creating and collecting wearable mementos. The Button Museum
houses over 10,000 buttons that range from an original 1864 Abraham Lincoln
campaign pre-button to buttons produced this year. The Button Museum is an
institutional member of both the American Alliance of Museums and Illinois
Association of Museums and is housed in the Busy Beaver Button Co.'s
facilities.

  
Major responsibilities:

*Perform historical research  
*Digitize, describe and catalog buttons  
*Input data and research into museum database  
  
Minimum qualifications:

*Strong research and writing skills with attention to detail  
*Strong organizational skills  
  
Preferred qualifications:

*Pursuing a degree in Library Science, Archives, Public History or a related field  
*Experience working with Photoshop to edit images  
*Experience with Drupal Content Management System  
*Experience cataloging museum objects  
  
Hours required: 5-20 hours a week. Research can be done remotely.



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