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About the Role
The Digital Collections Operations (DCO) department at The New York Public Library (NYPL) manages the end-to-end digital collections lifecycle. This 17-week paid internship offers exposure to digitization, metadata creation, digital preservation, rights clearance, and digital asset management within a major research library.
Responsibilities
- Gain exposure to DCO’s different approaches to digitization and reformatting across its two production labs and vendor services.
- Participate in project-cycle deep dives, practice material handling, camera setups, and lighting concepts using test materials.
- Assist with physical inspection, preparation, and reformatting of audio, video, and film formats, and learn vendor digitization workflows and coordination.
- Assist with forensic imaging and reformatting of physical born-digital media.
- Assist with preservation packages into Preservica.
- Assist with quality control and troubleshooting on legacy digital collection assets.
- Learn how the Metadata Services Unit (MSU) reuses existing archival description and catalog records to create item-level metadata.
- Gain hands-on practice with metadata remediation through a mini-project in a specific collection area.
- Assist with control by researching URIs and identifying name variants across library systems.
- Learn the public order request lifecycle by monitoring permissions intake and routing orders.
- Assist with collection divisions to confirm physical item availability before digitization.
- Gain exposure to administrative setups in ClickUp, preliminary financial invoicing in Freshbooks, and public documentation audits.
- Participate in rights reviews for digitized items from NYPL Collections.
- Assist with appropriate copyright statutes or other intellectual property designation in NYPL systems.
- Participate in rights holder research.
- Shadow Digital Asset Management staff to observe repository operations, asset ingest workflows, and system go-live protocols.
- Gain high-level exposure to DAMS access permissions and digital preservation infrastructure.
- Gain exposure to how DCO leadership coordinates priorities, capacity, dependencies, and decision-making across operational areas.
- Support operational documentation and process mapping.
- Assist with project tracking, follow-up coordination, and leadership meeting materials.
- Support change management and system rollout logistics by synthesizing user feedback and drafting adoption resources.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from a Master’s program in Library and Information Science (MLIS), Archival Studies, Digital Humanities, or a related field.
- Demonstrated interest in digital preservation, audiovisual archiving, commercial/studio photography, metadata, or library technology operations.
- Basic familiarity with physical handling of archival, library, or museum collections.
- Familiarity with project management tools.
Skills
- Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across diverse, specialized teams.
- Curiosity and demonstrated interest in digital collections, preservation, archives, libraries, museums, or related fields.
- Ability to adapt to different teams, projects, and work environments.
- Eagerness to learn new tools, technologies, professional practices, and ways of working.
- Ability to follow established workflows and procedures.
- Ability to document work accurately.
- Ability to ask questions or escalate issues when appropriate.
Location
- Library Services Center, Long Island City, NY
- Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
- Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York, NY
Work Type
- Internship
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Master’s program in Library and Information Science (MLIS), Archival Studies, Museum Studies, Digital Humanities, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $25.00 / hour
Benefits
- Paid internship
About the Company
- For more than 125 years, The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been an essential provider of books, information, ideas, and education.
- With collections numbering more than 56 million items and serving more than 16 million patrons in person each year and millions more online, NYPL’s reach is both local and global.
- Our mission is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
- NYPL operates world-class research centers, including the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Library for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Expert staff facilitate the work of diverse communities, offering inspiring reading rooms, programs, exhibitions, fellowships, and a dynamic range of research services.
- The work is supported by dedicated staff on the Collections and Research Services teams.
- NYPL is the most public and widely used research library in the world.