NY Public Library internship: Timothy Leary Papers

What a way to spend the spring:

The (New York Public Library) Manuscripts and Archives Division is offering an (unpaid) internship to aid the Digital and Project Archivists for the Timothy Leary Papers for the Spring 2013 term to students from a Master’s program in librarianship, archival studies, or preservation with an interest in the born digital materials in the papers.

The Papers document the life of Timothy Francis Leary (b. 1920, d. 1996), American psychologist and Harvard professor, who, through his studies regarding the use of psilocybin and LSD, went on to become an advocate for mind-altering drugs, eastern philosophy, sexual liberation, cyberspace and the cyberpunk genre. He was a prolific writer, lecturer, and counterculture icon (1960s - 1990s). The Papers contain material from notable figures, such as Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), William S. Burroughs, David Bryne, Larry Flynt, Allen Ginsberg, Keith Haring, Gerald Heard, Abbie and Anita Hoffman, Albert Hofmann, Aldous and Laura Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Art Kleps, and G. Gorden Liddy. The Papers include over a hundred floppy disks created or collected by Leary in a variety of formats.

"Timothy Leary Papers - Digital Archival Processing Internship" (Thanks, Doug Rushkoff!)

• [jarmstrong]

  I see attendance at an orientation session is required. Is there going to be a Test?

• [Colin Johnson]

  “What a way to spend the spring”…if you can afford to work for free for several months.

  • [David Pescovitz]

    If you read the internship description I link to, it is for 10 hours/week. 

• [5thcolumnist]

  Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.