If you are interested in volunteering or being an intern in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, we can put you to work assisting with our tasks of preserving, digitizing, and cataloguing archives collections, creating finding aids for collections, creating web presentations on archival materials, and helping with other projects.  We particularly welcome students in library and information studies who want an opportunity to work in a folklife archive as part of their degree program.  Skills you might bring to the tasks include a knowledge of or interest in world folk music traditions, audio engineering, Photoshop and web experience, or library and archival work. Students in Folklore, American Studies, American History, Music, Library Science or other fields may be able to arrange course credit for their work here. Interns typically work at least 20 hours per week for four weeks or more, but schedules are flexible.  During the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which runs for 10 days from late June into early July, interns are expected to be available during much of that time to assist the archivists with Festival documentation (audio, photo, and video).  If you have further questions about the types of projects available to Archives Interns, please contact one of the archivists who will be happy to discuss this with you.