Thanks to the generous support of the Cross Trust, The National Library of Scotland is offering two four-week internships working with special collections to begin in late July 2018.

The internships are aimed at people preparing for a career in rare book librarianship, or archives and records management, and offer the opportunity to spend a month working with the National Library of Scotland’s special collections, carrying out a programme of practical tasks relating to collection management, resource discovery and digitisation. Curators from Rare Books and Archives and Manuscript Collections will act as mentors throughout the internships, and on a day to day basis the interns will work with colleagues in a number of different areas of the Library, including the Collections Care, Digital, and Special Collections Reading Room teams.

The requirements of the funding from the Cross Trust are for the interns to be under 30 years old on 24 August 2018 and to be of Scottish birth or parentage (i.e. born in Scotland or with at least one parent born in Scotland).

The interns will receive a grant of £1250.

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