Rare Book School Data Internship

ORGANIZATION

Rare Book School at the University of Virginia provides innovative and outstanding educational opportunities to study the history, care, and use of written, printed, and digital materials. Through the hands-on, intensive examination and analysis of textual artifacts in seminar-style classes taught by an international faculty of distinguished scholars and professionals, Rare Book School fosters the knowledge and expertise essential to the responsible stewardship of the historical archive in all its richness and pluriformity. Promoting a spirit of learning and intellectual generosity, Rare Book School builds and enriches relationships among booksellers, collectors, conservators, educators, librarians, and other individuals from around the globe to create a community equipped to advance historically informed understandings of our cultural heritage.

MENTOR

Laura Perrings, Director of Programs & Education

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

This internship will prepare interns for careers in any of the following: 

  • Academic Research and Administration
  • Data Science

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

This internship will provide experiences to develop and polish the following skills: 

  • Data Literacy and Fluency
  • Problem-solving and Analytical Thinking
  • Project Management

MENTORING PLAN

Feedback will be provided through one-on-one meetings with the mentor as well as in writing. The intern will also participate in team meetings with the rest of the Programs staff at RBS as well as all-staff meetings, meetings about Rare Book School's Inclusive Excellence work, and meetings with UVA's CACS department. The intern will have the opportunity to learn about non-profit structures, about educational programing, and about the databases that organize our information.

LEARNING OUTCOMES          

Learning to manage data for a database and to analyze database. The analysis ties into our goals for growth as a continuing education foundation. The intern will become familiar with the workings of a non-profit, and how data informs our decisions in terms of course offerings, course development, communication and outreach, and our diversity, inclusivity, and equity goals. The intern will develop project management skills as well.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The intern will be handling data clean up and entry as we finish migrating information about student's course history from a legacy system into Salesforce. They will also help with analyzing data that we have collected over the years in aid of our Inclusive Excellence goals, to understand which audiences we are reaching and which we are not.

DESIRED QUALITIES

This successful applicant will be organized and detailed oriented with the ability to efficiently and accurately complete repetitive tasks during the data clean up phase. Familiarity with data analysis, database structure, and Salesforce are desired, but not required.

MODE OF INTERNSHIP

Will to consider in-person, virtual, or hybrid depending on the intern’s availability/preference

DURATION

Summer 2023 and Fall 2023