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SEARCH RESULTS 5 Opportunities Found
Opportunity Description: Lighthouse assistants provide interpretive programming with a park ranger during 30 minute guided tours of the assistant keepers residence and tower. A volunteer apartment is available in the head keepers quarters at the lighthouse. Orientation to the park operation is provided by park staff. Dates: June 15 - Labor Day Contact: Pam Baker 906-387-3700 pamela_baker@nps.gov Park Details: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore was authorized in 1966 as America's first national lakeshore. This 73,000 acre park extends for over 40 miles along the south shore of Lake Superior. The Lakeshore is a spectacular mosaic of 200' high sandstone cliffs, inland lakes and streams, five square miles of sand dunes, wetlands, and upland beech-maple hardwoods. The human history of the park includes prehistoric habitation, Anishinabe, early explorers, blast furnace, maritime, logging, and post-war recreational sites. The 1874 Au Sable Light Station is an icon of the park's rich human history.
Opportunity Description: Au Sable Light Station Museum Assistant Lighthouse assistants provide staffing for a small maritime museum in the head keepers quarters. Volunteer assists rangers and other volunteers facilitate tours of the assistant keepers residence and tower. A volunteer apartment is available in the head keepers quarters at the lighthouse. Orientation to the park operation is provided by park staff. Dates: July 1 - Labor Day Contact: Pam Baker, 906-387-3700 pamela_baker@nps.gov
Opportunity Description: Campground Host - Twelvemile Beach and Hurricane River Campgrounds Hosts assist park rangers with camper registration, fee collection, light maintenance, visitor information and safety assistance. A campsite is provided along with a park radio, light maintenance tools, and screen tent. Campgrounds do not have electricity, they are rustic. Orientation to the park operation is provided by park staff. Dates: June 15 - Labor Day Contact: Pam Baker, 906-387-3700 pamela_baker@nps.gov
Opportunity Description: Performs duties associated with the organizing, cataloging and preservation of photos. documents and artifacts that are part of the park's museum collection. The work is partially sedentary, involving prolonged periods of time filing or operating a computer workstation, standing, walking, and bending. Housing or reimbursement for expenses is not provided for this position. Recommended regular schedule of eight hours per week, but variable according to volunteers’ commitment and suitability in position.
Opportunity Description: Description: Keweenaw National Historical Park is charged with preserving and interpreting the history of hard-rock copper mining on the Keweenaw Peninsula, from prehistory to the present day. The park headquarters and archives facilities are located in the small town of Calumet, Michigan. The archives are housed in the former Calumet & Hecla mining Company Public Library building, which was built in 1897. Holdings in the archives include mining company records, business records, local government records, fraternal organization records, church records, family and personal papers, and assembled collections covering all aspects of life in the Keweenaw from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Many archival collections are associated with related museum collections, and include thousands of photographs. Archival collections are processed according to standards developed by the national Park Service, though because Keweenaw NHP's museum and archival program is still developing, very few of the archival collections at the park have been fully processed to date. The park has a small reading room, but due to the amount of processing that still needs to be done and because the archives building is not yet universally accessible, reference services are currently available by appointment only. Nevertheless, reference demand for archival materials is relatively high. Archives students interested in a summer internship at Keweenaw National Historical Park would primarily be asked to help process and catalog archival collections under the supervision of the park archivist, but may also have the opportunity to undertake, collaborate on, discuss, or otherwise participate in a wide variety of tasks, and work with professionals of other disciplines, depending on their interests and opportunities available. These other tasks may include salvage efforts or other acquisition field work, appraisal, accessioning, mold and pest mitigation, cleaning, digitization, collections management, policy development, facility planning, environmental monitoring, integrated pest management, museum housekeeping, or reference work. NPS museum and archival collections are cataloged using the ReDiscovery product, the Automated National Cataloging System (ANCS+), which produces finding aids in print and online without requiring any EAD or other coding. Students might also have the opportunity to work with museum (object) collections, or with the park's small library collection, if they are interested in doing so. An internship at Keweenaw National Historical Park would provide valuable experience for anyone interested in pursuing a career with the National Park Service, other cultural resource institutions, or archival repositories. Term: 10-12 weeks, 40 hours/week, May-August 2010 Selection Criteria: archives student(s) with practical experience processing archival collections in a professional setting is preferred. Applicants should submit a letter of interest addressed to the park archivist, and a current resume. Applicants may be contacted by phone to be interviewed. Housing: furnished quarters will be provided for one or two interns in a single one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in an historic building roughly 1 mile from the work site (interns willing to share quarters should indicate so on their application; specific roommate requests should also be noted on the application). Off street parking is available at no charge, coin-operated laundry facilities are available in the building.
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