Internship Jobs in Bangalore - National Centre for Biological Sciences
Job Description
Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) calling for Student Internship Batch 2.
About the internship:
The archiving team is going to be involved in the following tasks.While the Archives will likely also hire an outside contractor for bulk processing jobs like digitization and binning of archival records,the intern is expected to help the archivist with some of these tasks, which depends on specific skills/interests and the timing of the internship:
(A) Archival Arrangement and Description
- Sorting material to go either into the archive, the library, or to be recycled or disposed of — applying archival judgment along with the team.
- Building an initial classification and organization structure for the Archives.
- Building an initial metadata glossary for the Archives.
- Digitizing the archival records.
- Cataloging the archival material with accession numbers, classification hierarchy and relevant metadata. This will be on an open source archives database management system, likely on Archives Space. This is a critical task, which lays the foundation for the NCBS Digital Archive, which will be embedded into an interconnected digital archive later in 2018.
- Labelling the boxes and folders with appropriate classification hierarchy. g. writing extensive finding aids for the archival records.
(B) Archival Preservation
Cleaning material under the guidance of the archiving team.
Picking out archival records that need further preservation/conservation.
Binning the physical material into archive-grade sleeves, folders and boxes, with appropriate interleaving acid-free paper where necessary (such as in old photographs).
(C) Art and Writing
- Publicity material for the archives: brochures,pamphlets,posters postcards.
- Development of exhibit narratives based on archival material: written/artistic work
- Framing policies around open access to archival material in the sciences, aligning with IT/digital copyright legal standards in India and abroad.
Eligibility:
- Candidates with a degree or be enrolled in a degree-programmes in history,library sciences, law, museum studies, design or archives.Science backgrounds help (including being enrolled in science degree programmes).
- Interns should be competent with most things digital (spreadsheets, word processing, database entry, web navigation, ability to figure out scanning and archiving cataloguing needs).
- They should have good organization and communication skills (English/Hindi/Kannada).
- Commitment to time, an eye for detail and an ability to self-direct after initial training is critical. Also essential is an ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive documents.
- A sense of humour and being resourceful helps.
- Depending on the nature of the task, interns should expect to work both alone and as part of a larger team in hot, humid and dusty work environments at times.
Job Particulars
Role others
Who can apply Freshers
Hiring Process Written-test
Employment TypeInternship / Projects
Job Id347033
Job Category Internship , BSc/BCA/BBM , Others
Locality Address
State Karnataka
Country India
About Company
The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), located in Bangalore, is part of the Tat Institute of Fundamental research. The mandate of NCBS is fundamental research in the frontier areas of biology. Our research interests range from the study of single molecules to ecology and evolution. In addition we engage in a number of collaborative initiatives, such as in Stem and the ibio; and we help to develop cutting edge instrumentation and software via C- CAMP.
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