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Graduate Assistantship

NCSU Libraries
Special Collections Department
Box 7111, NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
(919) 515-2273 / (919) 515-3628 (fax)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/libraries/archives/

The North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections
Department is currently offering an assistantship to qualified
individuals.

Description: The assistantship project will focus on architectural or
engineering collections strengths in the Departmental collecting
initiatives.  It will consist of surveying, inventorying, arranging,
describing, and assessing the condition of collections.  The
assistantship will address preservation concerns and result in the
recording of cataloging information for database access, and issuing of
an archival finding aid.

Time: The assistantship will run from May to August, 2000 and will be 40
hours per week.  (Could also be split into two 20-hour per week
projects.)

Compensation: The assistant will earn $10.00 per hour for the project.

Qualifications: Must be a current graduate student; must have completed
some graduate course work in history, applied history or library science
with a concentration in special collections and/or archives.

To Apply: Submit resume and list of three references to Russell Koonts,
NCSU Special Collections, Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695

As a repository for primary research materials, the Special Collections
Department acquires and preserves original, rare, and unique materials
that support research and curricular strengths of the university.  These
collections include rare books, personal and professional papers of
individuals, organizational and corporate records, and the university's
archives.

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Greenways Internship

NCSU Libraries Special Collections
Box 7111, NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
(919) 515-2273 / (919) 515-7292 (fax)
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/libraries/archives/


The North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections
Department is currently offering an internship to qualified individuals.

Description: To continue development of the Greenways Archive, Special
Collections will begin preparation of a national greenways mapping
project and conduct a preliminary survey to locate greenways at the
national level and other resources related to the greenways movement.
The University Archivist at the NCSU Libraries will direct the survey.
A graduate student in the field of parks, recreation and tourism
management, landscape architecture, or a related field will begin
production of the mapping project in the summer, beginning with
currently available GIS data and survey information on file in Special
Collections.  Additional greenways data will be gathered through GPS
data collected during site visits and supplied by individuals associated
with the greenways movement, faculty interviews on this and other
campuses, and related interest groups, such as Rails-to-Trails and urban
designers.  The graduate student will provide access to the mapping
project via the greenways web site
(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/greenways/index.html) to provide a
mechanism to report the results of the preliminary survey.

Time: The project will run from May to August, 2000 and will be 40 hours
per week.

Compensation: The intern will earn $12.00 ? 15.00 per hour for the
project.

Qualifications: Must be a current upperlevel undergraduate or graduate
student; must have completed some graduate course work in geographic
information systems, with a concentration in parks, recreation and
tourism management or landscape architecture.

To Apply: Submit resume and list of 3 references to Russell Koonts, NCSU
Libraries, Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695

The Greenways Archive
The Greenways Archive is a collecting program developed by the NCSU
Libraries in collaboration with the Landscape Architecture Department at
NC State?s School of Design and supported by a grant from the Evergreen
Foundation.  The program was developed in 1991 to bring together in a
central repository materials that describe greenways projects, case
studies, research, reports, brochures, maps, news clippings, regulatory
examples, and other relevant and unique greenways information.  The core
collection of the archive currently is the Charles Little Papers.
Charles Little, the author of Greenways for America (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1990), donated his research files and notes to the
NCSU Libraries to establish the archive and to inspire other donations
of materials that support research into greenways and other topics in
landscape architecture.  Little notes in his introduction that when he
began his research he found only one citation relating to greenways and
that was one of his own articles.  The Greenways Archive is an effort to
centralize resources and make them available to researchers nation-wide.



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Russell S. Koonts
University Archivist
NCSU Libraries
NC State University
919/513-3673
russell_koonts@ncsu.edu

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