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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, the period can be extended.  
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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/placement. 
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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, gratis, for the cataloguer during the residency, and a free meal in Hall each working day (Monday to Friday). The College will also reimburse travelling expenses (limited to a single return trip from a European point of departure only). The cataloguer would work with members of the Library Staff, who can provide support as required, as well as social interaction.
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 +Requirements: Good knowledge of Latin; Fluency in written English; Palaeographical skills; 
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 +Bibliographical training in rare books is preferred.  
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 +**2.Incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino California  – in person, 1 month** 
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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://huntington.org/information-new-fellows for information regarding refunds. The Huntington maintains an exchange visitor program through the United States Department of State and will assist fellows with providing the appropriate paperwork.
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 +Requirements: Good knowledge of Latin; Fluency in written English; Palaeographical skills that can be specialized in a geo-cultural region and may influence the parts of the collection to be assigned; Bibliographical training in rare books is preferred.  
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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), mainly by adding photographs and provenance information on the CERL PDA. The CERL PDA is an online, freely available resource where researchers and libraries can describe provenance marks. The aim of the internship is to enrich the already existing MEI records of all incunabula held by Greek libraries, by providing  photographic evidence of their provenance details via PDA. The internship duration is one month. It is preferred to be done in person, in which case the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation will offer free housing for the duration of the internship. Supervisor: Dr Vera Andriopoulou, Head of the Historical Library. The internship can take place up to Autumn 2024, but except for the months of May and August.
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 +Requirements: Good knowledge of English; Preferred knowledge of Latin and Greek; Preferred basic knowledge of incunabula and the MEI database; Knowledge of early printed books and bibliography. 
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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, and to document these in the CERL Provenance Digital Archive (PDA). The CERL PDA is an online, freely available resource where researchers and libraries can describe provenance marks. Whenever possible, this will include reference to corresponding authority files from the CERL Thesaurus. If time permits, the grantee would assist in documenting the Fagel incunabula in the database of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI).
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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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 +Requirements: Familiarity with early modern palaeography; Ability to work carefully and precisely; Some investigative skills; Basic knowledge of bibliographic descriptions; Ability to read Dutch would be beneficial.
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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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 +Requirements: Good knowledge of Italian and Latin; Knowledge of bibliographical description of incunabula; Knowledge of MEI; Ability to work independently and with accuracy; Bibliographical training in rare books is preferred.
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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, comprising around 900 titles printed before 1501. After having recently digitized all our medieval manuscripts and an important collection of 16th-century convolutes, we now plan to digitize all our incunables in 2024-2026. As part of this project, the metadata will be checked, enhanced, and enriched. To this end, we want to establish cross-references between our library catalogue (OCLC Worldcat) and the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), hosted by CERL.
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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, nor any financial support to this end. However, we can offer some suggestions to help you find a place.
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 +Requirements: (Some) experience in handling rare materials; Working with great precision and care; Understanding the challenges involved in distinguishing between different incunable editions, and ability to use bibliographic metadata to make reliable identifications; Experience with MARC21 records and the bibliographic formats and standards in use by OCLC is an advantage; Knowledge of (some) Latin, medieval and modern Dutch; Fluency in English and/or Dutch.
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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/project and your suitability for the internship, your reasons for the application, and the name of one referee who can be contacted by CERL.  
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 +If the applicant is employed by an institution, the consent of the institution should be included. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed remotely.  
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 +Deadline: **11 April 2024**. Please email the application to c.dondi@cerl.org
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