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The library and archives has been providing resources, reference and research for 34 years at Mote Marine Laboratory. Its collection is maintained for the support of marine research and education. The library is currently engaged in an archives grant project funded by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. It involves the library's special collections and includes basic processing, arrangement and description of the materials, preservation activities, and increasing accessibility to the collections. As part of the project, pertinent items in the collection are being digitized and added to Mote's Institutional Repository, DSpace. One of the special collections consists of the hand-written field journals from the early 1900s of a prominent ichthyologist, Charles M. Breder, Jr. The library plans to transcribe these hand-written journals/manuscripts, digitize them, and add them to DSpace using descriptive metadata. The library is seeking an intern to assist with this project, especially the transcription of the manuscripts. Internship activities include: transcription, verification and editing of pertinent hand-written Breder field journals/manuscripts; digitization activities including scanning and creating TIFFS, JPEGS, and PDFs of selected materials; cropping, formatting and enhancing digital documents as needed; descriptive metadata cataloging and loading of records into DSpace; and assisting with various archival processing tasks. Knowledge of the following is helpful: experience with Adobe Pro and Photoshop, previous use of Microsoft Office Suite, familiarity with Dublin Core descriptive metadata, awareness of current archival standards/best practices, and excellent research and writing skills. The Library is seeking an Intern with a background in special libraries, archival studies, history, science, history of science, technical writing, editing, computer/technology, data management or related field. The internship starts early 2013 for a total of 250 hours. Scholarship funds are available for this internship. The library is open from 8 a.m. - 5p.m. Monday - Friday. If interested, please contact Krystal Harvey, College Intern Coordinator, at intern(at)mote.org and refer to www.mote.org/interns for more information on Mote's internships. Applications are being accepted through December 15, 2012. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4881/