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Alice T. Miner Museum
The Alice T. Miner Museum is seeking volunteers to help in interpreting the museum and its contents for visitors, researching our collection or archives, and assisting with events. The Alice also has a garden club for the green thumb looking to commit a few hours each week. The museum docent should be able to give a minimum of six hours a week for museum work.
The Alice T. Miner Museum is a Colonial Revival Museum with a widely varied and exciting collection of decorative arts and furniture displayed in period rooms first arranged by Alice in 1924. The museum also houses extensive archives, including local history, genealogical information and letters from well-known historical figures, as well as photographs and personal letters of Alice and William Miner.
Docents learn skills relating to the proper handling and care of historic objects and archival materials as well as tour guiding techniques, public relations, and research methods.
If you think you would be a great fit for our team please contact Amanda Palmer to arrange an interview:
Amanda Palmer
Director/Curator
518-846-7336
minermuseum@westelcom.com
Study "Abroad" as a Washington Internship Institute Embassy Scholar
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| Read about Plattsburgh History and Latin American Studies graduate, Jacki Demarse-Marcil's internship at the U.S. State Department. |
Shape U.S. foreign policy. Promote international trade and development. Translate documents. Plan events for international visitors. Interns in WII's Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars program accomplish these activities and more at embassies, the State Department, and international nonprofit agencies!
WII offers the Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars internship program every fall and spring. (If you are interested in a summer internship, please apply for the Capital Experience. You may still do an internationally-focused internship through that program.)
The Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars program consists of:
- 4 full days per week at the internship site;
- 2 academic seminars on the other day of the week;
- Convenient, Metro-accessible housing option;
- Orientation; and
- Student activities.
Participating in the program enables you to:
- Gain hands-on experience;
- Investigate career options;
- Enhance your resume;
- Establish a professional network; and
- Begin the transition from campus to career.
In addition, although WII does not award credit, most schools award a full semester's credit to their students. Check with your advisor or contact WII for more information.
WII awards a limited number of merit-based scholarships to Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars. All participants are automatically considered for these scholarships.
We invite you to read more about the Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars program at http://www.ielnet.org/embassy.shtml
Special Collections in Benjamin F. Feinberg Library
Special Collections
in Benjamin F. Feinberg Library has three opportunities for qualified students to work as interns for credit during the spring 2005 semester. If you are interested in applying for an internship, please contact your advisor or another history faculty member. Special Collections houses general materials on New York State with particular emphasis on the Northern Counties of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin, and the Adirondack and lake Champlain regions. Information is collected in a variety of formats, including monographs, periodicals, pamphlets, photographs, maps, audio and video materials, and manuscripts. In addition to New York and local history materials, Special Collections houses the University Archives, the Plattsburgh State thesis collection, rare books, and the Rockwell Kent Collection.
Duties: The intern in this position will aid with inventory of manuscript collections. This will involve examining the contents, condition, and state of processing for local and regional primary document collections. Additional requirements may be requested by the student's faculty sponsor.
Qualifications: The student in this position must be responsible, dependable, and attentive to detail. Good written communication skills are essential.
Time Requirement: The number of hours spent on the project is dependent upon the number of credits the intern wishes to earn. Detailed information can be found on the Internship Application available at the Registrar's Office. Three-credit internships require 9-10 hours/week working on the project.
The student must be available to work the required number of hours during times that Special Collections is open. Please refer to Special Collections hours at the following link: http://www.plattsburgh.edu/library/specialcollections/hours.php.
Students wishing to apply for this internship must first have a faculty sponsor.
The intern will report to Debra Kimok, Special Collections Librarian, who will evaluate the internship at its conclusion. The intern's faculty sponsor will assign the grade for the internship.
Audio Digitization Project
Special Collections in Feinberg Library is offering an internship during each semster for an upper-level history or communications student.
Duties: The intern in this position will continue a project begun in fall 2004 to digitize audio materials currently held in Special Collections. The work will involve selecting materials of interest to digitize and following operating instructions as outlined in the manual prepared by a former intern.The student will also be expected to investigate the contents of audiotapes not being used as part of this internship and to contribute to an ongoing list and description of these items. Additional work may be required by the student's faculty sponsor.
Qualifications: Student must have an interest in regional history, good writing and computer skills, and be responsible, reliable, and able to work independently. The student must also be available to work the required number of hours during times that Special Collections is open. Please refer to Special Collections hours at the following link: http://www.plattsburgh.edu/library/specialcollections/hours.htm. Students wishing to apply for this internship must first have a faculty sponsor in either the history or the communications department.
Time Requirement: Hours spent on the project is dependent upon the number of credits the intern wishes to earn. Detailed information can be found on the Internship Application available at the Registrar's Office. Three credit internships require 9-10 hours/week working on the project.
Internship Opportunity: Plattsburgh Air Base Exhibit
Duties: Under supervision of the Special Collections librarian, the intern will re-house materials pertaining to the Plattsburgh Air Force Base, conduct research about the history of the uses of the Air Base grounds, and prepare and install an exhibit about the history of the Air Base in the display case in the Feinberg Library lobby.
Qualifications: The student should have an understanding of and interest in historical research. Reliability, excellent organizational and writing skills are essential.
Commitment: The intern will fulfill hourly obligations required for a 3-credit course.
Intern will report to Debra Kimok, Special Collections Librarian, who will evaluate the internship at its conclusion. The intern's faculty advisor will assign the grade for the internship.
The Adirondack Museum
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The Adirondack Museum offers an exciting opportunity for qualified undergraduate or graduate students seeking internship positions for college credit. Internships enable students to understand how a museum operates and provide hands-on work experience.
Interns will work closely with professional curators to research, catalogue and rehouse portions of the museum's extensive photograph collection.
More than 68,000 images portray virtually every aspect of life within and surrounding the boundaries of the Adirondack Park. The collection includes a broad representation of nineteenth and twentieth century photographic technologies and ranges in date from the 1840s to the present. Photographers represented in the collection include Seneca Ray Stoddard, Edward Bierstadt, Henry Beach, Katherine E. McClellan, Alfred Steiglitz, Eliot Porter and Margaret Bourke-White.
Internships are available for a minimum of five weeks or for a full 15 week period. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 4 hours each day, two to five days per week, depending on the length of the internship. No stipend is offered, although housing may be provided during the summer.
Qualifications: Desired backgrounds include history, environmental history, art history, and photography. Computer skills are essential. Good research and writing skills as well as attention to detail are required.
To apply: All applicants must submit a cover letter and resume with two letters of academic reference.
Please mail your application materials to:
Laura RiceCurator
Adirondack Museum
POB 99
Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812-0099
For more information, please contact Laura Rice at lrice@adkmuseum.org or call (518) 352-7311, ext. 103.
Apply for Internships through the Student Conservation Association
Founded in 1957, the Student Conservation Association
is the nation's largest and oldest provider of conservation service opportunities, outdoor education and career training for youth. S.C.A. is building the next generation of conservation leaders and inspiritng lifelong environmental stewardship by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land. Each year our interns provide more than one million hours of conservation service in parks, forests, refuges and urban areas nation wide" (S.C.A. guidebook).
You needn't be an environmental studies student or an environmental historian to be interested in S.C.A. internships. S.C.A. sponsors and expedites internships relating to history, library research and curatorial work, living history (including role playing), museum work, and interpretation of area resources. For example, you can apply to do interpretive work at the Minute Man National Historcal Park, the Colonial National Historical Park, the Fort Scott National Historic Site or become a researcher at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. This is just a small selection of a wide variety of options. These internships range in time from 12 weeks to a full year and come with travel grants, free housing, a small living allowance, accident insurance, and deferment of qualified student loans.
If you're interested in finding out more about internships offered through S.C.A., please visit their website or contact Prof. Gary Kroll.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
For more information about the History program at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact
Wendy Gordon, Chair
History Department
Champlain Valley Hall
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Phone: (518) 564-2213
Fax: (518) 564-2212
E-mail: gordonwm@plattsburgh.edu