Practicum Opportunities

Historical Center of York County

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Location Description

The Historical Center of York County was originally opened in 1989 to serve as the County’s archival repository, and now collects, preserve, interpret, and maintain information of historical importance to the Piedmont areas of the Carolinas under the Culture & Heritage Museums.

Practicum Work Mode

On site

Semesters or Time Period Available

Ongoing, not limited to a specific semester

Location

210 East Jefferson Street
York, South Carolina 29745
https://chmuseums.org/historical-center-mc

Contact

Carleigh Isbell
Archives Specialist
cisbell@chmuseums.org
803-818-6769

Student Tasks

The purpose of this position is to assist Historical Center staff in protecting and preserving historical records and making them accessible for walk-in visitors and staff.The student will be mainly be assisting with processing archival collections. This includes preserving documents in acid free folders and archival boxes, organizing archival collections such as family papers, maps, books, photos, etc., creating finding aids for archival collections along with researching and transcribing historical documents for scholarly articles.

Type of Mentoring Provided to the Student

Daily and long term operations of an Archiving institution, how to deal with the working environment and various departments. Close communications for certain projects will be implemented, but there are plenty of options for independent projects as well.

Student Interaction With Others at the Location

The Historical Center of York County houses the Archives department, the Collections department, along with the Historian of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute. The staff is small and there is constant overlap and assisting others with various tasks. Consistently the student will interact with the Archives staff, but will have daily interactions with the Collections and Southern Revolutionary War Institute staff.

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) , University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

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Location Description

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Office is responsible for the welfare of vertebrate animals research and teaching activities across the UTK area. Prior to engaging in work with animals, a detailed protocol describing the work must be submitted to the IACUC, which is then reviewed by compliance several groups to ensure that animal care and use are congruent with federal, local and institutional requirements. We interact with faculty, students and staff engaged in research or teaching to provide training and resources to support the development and implementation of their IACUC protocol.

Practicum Work Mode

Flexible / Hybrid

Semesters or Time Period Available

Ongoing, not limited to a specific semester

Location

2415 Fletcher Luck Lane 225 Third Creek Building
Knoxville, TN 37996
https://iacuc.utk.edu

Contact

Melinda Hauser
Director, IACUC
mhauser@utk.edu
865-974-4047

Student Tasks

We are looking for a student to redesign our IACUC website. Currently, most of our content is on SharePoint, but we would like to transition to a WordPress platform. The site must provide a secure method to share confidential documents and provide ready access to training materials, video, and other IACUC information. We would need multi-level access to the content – with IACUC members having full access, teaching/research staff and students having differential levels of limited access. We welcome creative approaches to the construction of a visually pleasing, user-friendly website.

Type of Mentoring Provided to the Student

The student would work with the IACUC Director and IACUC Administrative Coordinator to incorporate existing content and developing new content for the website. The Administrative Coordinator is a recent MS graduate from the SIS program and would serve as a resource to discuss and develop ideas for the website. In collaboration with the Director and Coordinator, we would work to set goals which would support the growth of the student as they work to develop the website.

Student Interaction With Others at the Location

The work may be done on-site and/or remotely. We would meet formally to assess progress and goals on a weekly or biweekly basis, depending on the needs and preferences of the student. The Director and Administrative Coordinator are available at any time for consultation, discussion or support. We welcome whatever level of engagement the student would like to have with the IACUC to build their familiarity with our processes while designing the website. This would include participating in IACUC training, observing monthly meetings, as desired.

Huguenot Society of South Carolina

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Location Description

Private genealogical collection maintained by historical society membership, located in scenic/historic downtown Charleston SC.

Practicum Work Mode

On site

Semesters or Time Period Available

Available for multiple semesters for a single student (Fall 2021 or Spring 2022)

Location

138 Logan St.
Charleston, SC 29401
https://www.huguenotsociety.org

Contact

Chris Barett
Executive Director
chris@huguenotsociety.org
843-996-2020

Student Tasks

Cataloging new acquisitions, assessing dupes and dated items for deaccession, develop plan to convert current non-standard cataloging system to LOC.

Type of Mentoring Provided to the Student

The Huguenot Society was founded in 1885 with a mandate “To discover, collect, and preserve all existing documents, monuments, etc., relating to the genealogy or history of the Huguenots of America in general, and of those of South Carolina in particular.
… To garner by degrees a library for the use of the Society, composed of all obtainable books, monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, etc., relating to the Huguenots.”

Curiously, Society staff has accomplished that goal without ever having a librarian in house. We would look to this graduate student to help us standardize our cataloging system, metadata generation, and help us make our catalog friendly to Worldcat and remote scholarship.

Student Interaction With Others at the Location

The graduate student will work closely with the Society’s Director, a research staff of three, and interns currently engaged in a large-scale digitization project in concert with College of Charleston.

South Clinton Elementary School

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Location Description

We are a small K-6 elementary school with 265 students. We are part of Clinton City Schools, which is a small system of three elementary schools.

Practicum Work Mode

On site

Semesters or Time Period Available

Ongoing, not limited to a specific semester

Location

242 Hi-way Drive
Clinton, TN 37716
https://sces.clintonschools.org/

Contact

Teresa Schlandt
Library Media Specialist
schlandtt@clintonschools.org
865-457-2684

Student Tasks

I would provide hands on opportunities teaching, preparing lessons, checking out books, processing books, helping to run Book Fairs, make bulletin boards etc…….the list is endless!

Type of Mentoring Provided to the Student

One of one modeling and and coaching

Student Interaction With Others at the Location

They would have the opportunity to teach all grade levels and therefore have interaction with all classroom/resource teachers.