A month has passed since I started at Burke as a summer intern, and I now find myself reflecting upon the last four weeks. While I came into this internship with previous processing experience, I have found that I am constantly learning something new at Burke, whether it’s learning how to wrap a book in […]
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My First Month at Burke
On the verge of completing my fourth week as a summer intern at Burke, I find myself substantially enriched in the field of archives. At the same time, I am keenly aware of how much I don’t know. My internship at Burke is part of my triangle approach to learning as much as I can […]
Summer Adventure: Internship at Burke Library
I was thrilled to be offered the internship at Burke after investigating several opportunities for the summer. Having just completed my first semester at Queens College, where I will pursue the Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials simultaneously with my MLS, I wanted to immerse myself in the field in order to relate […]
Thoughts and Expectations of a New Intern
Setting off on a new and unknown endeavor is always as exciting as it is nerve wracking. Personally, my nerves overcompensate leaving my nights preceding the start of something new riddled with strange and outlandish nightmares. For example, this week I have been plagued with the normal nightmares of missing my early morning train or […]
1st Day – New Intern Posting
Today is my first day at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary as an archival intern. First days are always exciting and nerve racking. What will the new desk I am working at look like? What if my new boss doesn’t like my outfit? What if I trip on that spiral staircase mentioned in […]
New Intern Thoughts and Expectations
This past year has been an exciting one; last May I graduated Rutgers University with a B.A. in History and English, and I can now say that I have successfully completed my first year of graduate school. Looking back, I remember thinking about my post-college plans and how unsure I was. Pursuing a career as […]
Last Day at the Burke
This semester flew by far too quickly, and with the end of the semester arriving, my last day at The Burke has arrived as well. My brief time here was wonderful and something that I will look back on and treasure. As mentioned in my expectations piece, I just wanted to gain exposure to the […]
From Archives to Indonesia: Living a Luce Legacy
In January 2012, I began working with the archival collections of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, helping to preserve, process, and make available the materials contained within the now-inoperative Missionary Research Library and William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library, both housed in Brown tower. These collections included a large number of unprocessed rare materials […]
New Records from the Early Years of the National Council of Churches
Source: National Council of the Churches Website, © 2012. Accessed 28 January 2013 at http://www.ncccusa.org/. A large collection of records from the first two decades of the National Council of Churches (NCC) has recently been reprocessed and made available again thanks to a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. This collection is held by […]
Internship Expectations
I am currently in my last semester as a Graduate student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Sciences program. I am also pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Museum Librarianship. I think each time I think about this being my last semester I get a little sad. I’m incredibly happy that I will be […]