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CERL member libraries propose projects suitable to the CERL Grant. The internship should normally take place within the period January-September. | CERL member libraries propose projects suitable to the CERL Grant. The internship should normally take place within the period January-September. | ||
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+ | ** INTERNSHIPS OFFERED BY MEMBER LIBRARIES AND CERL IN 2024** | ||
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+ | CERL would like to offer **six** 2024 Internship and Placement Grants, to the value of 1,000 Euros each, to allow qualified librarians and scholars to work on CERL projects in CERL libraries, or in CERL offices, to be trained on, and contribute to, CERL digital resources, and to participate in CERL’s Working Groups, generally for a period of one month. If matched funding is provided by the hosting institution, | ||
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+ | All internships should take place before the end of December 2024. | ||
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+ | This grant can only be assigned once to the same person. Applications not selected but positively vetted will be notified that they can be put in again for the next round. | ||
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+ | A written report for the CERL webpage, Newsletter, blog, and/or a presentation in person will be expected at the end of the internship/ | ||
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+ | CERL’s Grants Sub-Committee | ||
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+ | ==== INTERNSHIPS OFFERED BY MEMBER LIBRARIES AND CERL ==== | ||
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+ | **1. Incunabula at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge – in person, 2 months ** | ||
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+ | The College was founded as Gonville Hall in 1348. It was re-founded in 1557, at which point it took its current name. The first dedicated library premises dates from 1441. The College Library possesses 101 incunabula items. In 2019 the College Library became a member of the CERL cluster of historic Cambridge libraries. Between 2021-2022 records for 65 of our incunabula were added to MEI. The proposal in hand is for a dedicated cataloguer, with the specialist skills and experience, appointed by CERL, to come to the Library to review and overhaul the 65 records already on MEI and to create 36 for the remaining. | ||
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+ | The College commits to providing accommodation, | ||
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+ | Bibliographical training in rare books is preferred. | ||
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+ | **2.Incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino California | ||
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+ | The Huntington Library—set among botanical gardens on a two-hundred-acre estate in San Marino, California—is one of the world’s great independent research libraries. With approximately eleven million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries, The Huntington annually serves the research needs of over 1,800 readers from thirty different countries, who create a lively and diverse scholarly culture. | ||
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+ | The Library’s distinguished holdings include over 5,200 incunabula—the second-largest such collection in the United States. Assembled through a combination of discriminating individual selections and bold en-bloc purchases, the books cover the map of 15th-century printing. They are especially rich in Italian and German imprints but also include rarities from England and the Iberian Peninsula. The Huntington incunabula constitute one of the cornerstones of Bookbindings on Incunables: The Scott Husby Database at Princeton University, which revealed that nearly a quarter of the books retain contemporary bindings. | ||
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+ | The Huntington is offering a one-month internship to create records of its incunabula in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database. The internship will be supervised by Stephen Tabor, Curator of Rare Books at the Huntington. | ||
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+ | With support from the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), The Huntington is offering a stipend of $3,500 for the month, with the intern bearing the travel cost from the funding. Non-U.S. nationals need to apply for a J-1 visa. and the stipend will be subject to withholding taxes of approximately 21%. See https:// | ||
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+ | **3. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Piraeus, Greece: Work on the project map-inc (Mapping incunabula in Greek libraries) and CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive (PDA) – in person or remote, 1 month** | ||
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+ | The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation would like to offer an internship for one person to work on the map-inc project (map-inc.gr), | ||
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+ | **4. Fagel Collection, Library of Trinity College Dublin, Description of provenance marks in the Provenance Digital Archive of CERL – remote, 1 month** | ||
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+ | A remote internship for one month to interpret provenance marks found in the Fagel Collection from photographs, | ||
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+ | The grantee would be supervised by Dr Ann-Marie Hansen, Project Manager of Unlocking the Fagel Collection, Library of Trinity College Dublin with the assistance of the coordinator of the CERL PDA, Marieke van Delft. | ||
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+ | **5. Incunabula at the University Library of Naples, creating 50-80 records in MEI – in person, 1 month** | ||
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+ | The University Library of Naples was founded by Ferdinand I in 1816 and is currently located in the suppressed Jesuit Collegio Massimo. Among its historical collections it holds an important collection of incunabula. | ||
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+ | The books were examined in detail by the students of the Scuola di Alta Formazione Alberto Varvaro, headed by prof. Andrea Mazzucchi. The results of the work were published in Gli Incunaboli della Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli, ed. Giancarlo Petrella (Rome: Antenore, 2022). Recently, all volumes were catalogued in SBN, and digitized. Now the Library would like to share the historical findings of 50 to 80 incunabula in MEI. Preferred month: October 2024. | ||
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+ | **6. Utrecht University Library: matching incunable holdings with ISTC numbers – in person, 1 month** | ||
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+ | Utrecht University Library, established in 1584, boasts one of the largest incunable collections in the Netherlands, | ||
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+ | We are looking for an intern with knowledge of incunables and of bibliographic metadata for early printed books, who can help us draw up a list that matches our holdings to the relevant ISTC numbers. The matching involves close comparison of metadata as well as book-in-hand examination. A preliminary inspection has shown that currently not all of our holdings are listed in the ISTC, the shelfmarks and links to digitized items are often lacking, and some copies are apparently listed under the wrong edition. Your job will be to check, add, and correct the ISTC references and record them in a spreadsheet. | ||
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+ | Please note: it is your own responsibility to arrange for housing, which can be very challenging in Utrecht. We regret that we cannot offer you accommodation, | ||
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+ | **FOR STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA of MILAN** | ||
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+ | Since 2019, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan funds a dedicated grant to allow a student from its institution who matches the indicated requirements to be selected for a CERL internship abroad, specifically to work on incunabula and MEI. | ||
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+ | **APPLICATION PROCEDURE** | ||
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+ | Your application should include a CV (maximum two pages) and a covering letter. This should outline preference of destination/ | ||
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+ | If the applicant is employed by an institution, | ||
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+ | Deadline: **11 April 2024**. Please email the application to c.dondi@cerl.org | ||
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**INTERNSHIPS OFFERED BY MEMBER LIBRARIES AND CERL in 2023** | **INTERNSHIPS OFFERED BY MEMBER LIBRARIES AND CERL in 2023** | ||
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Cataloguing the incunabula of the **Metropolitan Seminary Library in Warsaw** into MEI. | Cataloguing the incunabula of the **Metropolitan Seminary Library in Warsaw** into MEI. | ||
2) Camilla Marangoni (Master’s degree in Archaeology and Art History, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) transferring data from the Catalogue of the **Laurenziana Library of Florence** into MEI. | 2) Camilla Marangoni (Master’s degree in Archaeology and Art History, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) transferring data from the Catalogue of the **Laurenziana Library of Florence** into MEI. | ||
- | 4) Anna de Bruyn (PhD student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Cataloguing the incunabula of **Groningen UL** into MEI. | + | 3) Anna de Bruyn (PhD student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Cataloguing the incunabula of **Groningen UL** into MEI. |
** RECIPIENTS OF 2018/19 GRANTS** | ** RECIPIENTS OF 2018/19 GRANTS** |
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