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Hello and happy new year to you all!

In a couple of weeks, I will be back in school for the Spring semester and I will be doing an internship with the museum I've been volunteering for the past year and a half. I have three more semesters to go to receive my Bachelors of Arts in History. This upcoming fall, I will apply for a couple of graduate school programs which will be Museum Studies and History. MS is my first choice.

Usually students would do an internship during their final year but I feel I'm ready to for a head start in my field. In my major program, an internship can be repeatable to 12 hours. I plan to do another another internship for Spring 2018 which my final semester so I could just take 3 classes.

Last month when discussing with the museums dictator about the internship, she explained that I will be doing some advance research for the spring exhibit and attend some meetings. I'll be doing 6 hours a week and doing other things on the side on my own. The dictator explained it's pretty much a thing of trust.

I copy and pasted the description about what I'll be doing.

• Explore and learn research method for presenting public history with an emphasis on exhibiting artifact in the context of significant local and national historical events.

• Build on current skills to grow in understanding of the collection management including identifying, cataloguing, handling and storing artifacts.

• Research new acquisitions and catalogue items using the museum’s computer system. (Past Perfect)

• Build a better understanding of how the collection management system can be used for the curate an exhibit. 

• Assist with research for the spring 2017 exhibit. Explore ways to organize information for the exhibit including selection of relevant artifacts from the collection. Write wall panel about selected artifacts and regional sites. Attend Exhibit Committee meetings to learn about museum management and governance. 

Since I've been volunteering for a year and a half, I have good knowledge how some things work in the museum. As a volunteer, I mainly work with archives (just working with accession numbers and write descriptions). With this internship, it's research. 

There will always be trail and errors but I wish to avoid as much as possible. If anyone has some advice based on the internship description, I'll greatly appreciate it! 

-Daniel 

Hello and happy new year to you all!

In a couple of weeks, I will be back in school for the Spring semester and I will be doing an internship with the museum I've been volunteering for the past year and a half. I have three more semesters to go to receive my Bachelors of Arts in History. This upcoming fall, I will apply for a couple of graduate school programs which will be Museum Studies and History. MS is my first choice.

Usually students would do an internship during their final year but I feel I'm ready to for a head start in my field. In my major program, an internship can be repeatable to 12 hours. I plan to do another another internship for Spring 2018 which my final semester so I could just take 3 classes.

Last month when discussing with the museums dictator about the internship, she explained that I will be doing some advance research for the spring exhibit and attend some meetings. I'll be doing 6 hours a week and doing other things on the side on my own. The dictator explained it's pretty much a thing of trust.

I copy and pasted the description about what I'll be doing.

• Explore and learn research method for presenting public history with an emphasis on exhibiting artifact in the context of significant local and national historical events.

• Build on current skills to grow in understanding of the collection management including identifying, cataloguing, handling and storing artifacts.

• Research new acquisitions and catalogue items using the museum’s computer system. (Past Perfect)

• Build a better understanding of how the collection management system can be used for the curate an exhibit. 

• Assist with research for the spring 2017 exhibit. Explore ways to organize information for the exhibit including selection of relevant artifacts from the collection. Write wall panel about selected artifacts and regional sites. Attend Exhibit Committee meetings to learn about museum management and governance. 

Since I've been volunteering for a year and a half, I have good knowledge how some things work in the museum. As a volunteer, I mainly work with archives (just working with accession numbers and write descriptions). With this internship, it's research. 

There will always be trail and errors but I wish to avoid as much as possible. If anyone has some advice based on the internship description, I'll greatly appreciate it! 

-Daniel 

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Daniel Williams
Museum Volunteer
Macomb IL
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Hi Daniel,  It looks like you are off to a good start.  I have just one suggestion, after a quick perusal of your thoughtful note, which is that you might want to refer to your supervisor as the Museum Director.  Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with us, and please accept my best wishes for your future.

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Colin Windhorst PhD

Original Message:
Sent: 01-01-2017 09:19 PM
From: Daniel Williams
Subject: Internship Advice

Hello and happy new year to you all!

In a couple of weeks, I will be back in school for the Spring semester and I will be doing an internship with the museum I've been volunteering for the past year and a half. I have three more semesters to go to receive my Bachelors of Arts in History. This upcoming fall, I will apply for a couple of graduate school programs which will be Museum Studies and History. MS is my first choice.

Usually students would do an internship during their final year but I feel I'm ready to for a head start in my field. In my major program, an internship can be repeatable to 12 hours. I plan to do another another internship for Spring 2018 which my final semester so I could just take 3 classes.

Last month when discussing with the museums dictator about the internship, she explained that I will be doing some advance research for the spring exhibit and attend some meetings. I'll be doing 6 hours a week and doing other things on the side on my own. The dictator explained it's pretty much a thing of trust.

I copy and pasted the description about what I'll be doing.

• Explore and learn research method for presenting public history with an emphasis on exhibiting artifact in the context of significant local and national historical events.

• Build on current skills to grow in understanding of the collection management including identifying, cataloguing, handling and storing artifacts.

• Research new acquisitions and catalogue items using the museum’s computer system. (Past Perfect)

• Build a better understanding of how the collection management system can be used for the curate an exhibit. 

• Assist with research for the spring 2017 exhibit. Explore ways to organize information for the exhibit including selection of relevant artifacts from the collection. Write wall panel about selected artifacts and regional sites. Attend Exhibit Committee meetings to learn about museum management and governance. 

Since I've been volunteering for a year and a half, I have good knowledge how some things work in the museum. As a volunteer, I mainly work with archives (just working with accession numbers and write descriptions). With this internship, it's research. 

There will always be trail and errors but I wish to avoid as much as possible. If anyone has some advice based on the internship description, I'll greatly appreciate it! 

-Daniel 

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Daniel Williams
Museum Volunteer
Macomb IL
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Hello and happy new year to you all!

In a couple of weeks, I will be back in school for the Spring semester and I will be doing an internship with the museum I've been volunteering for the past year and a half. I have three more semesters to go to receive my Bachelors of Arts in History. This upcoming fall, I will apply for a couple of graduate school programs which will be Museum Studies and History. MS is my first choice.

Usually students would do an internship during their final year but I feel I'm ready to for a head start in my field. In my major program, an internship can be repeatable to 12 hours. I plan to do another another internship for Spring 2018 which my final semester so I could just take 3 classes.

Last month when discussing with the museums director about the internship, she explained that I will be doing some advance research for the spring exhibit and attend some meetings. I'll be doing 6 hours a week and doing other things on the side on my own. The director explained it's pretty much a thing of trust.

I copy and pasted the description about what I'll be doing.

• Explore and learn research method for presenting public history with an emphasis on exhibiting artifact in the context of significant local and national historical events.

• Build on current skills to grow in understanding of the collection management including identifying, cataloguing, handling and storing artifacts.

• Research new acquisitions and catalogue items using the museum’s computer system. (Past Perfect)

• Build a better understanding of how the collection management system can be used for the curate an exhibit. 

• Assist with research for the spring 2017 exhibit. Explore ways to organize information for the exhibit including selection of relevant artifacts from the collection. Write wall panel about selected artifacts and regional sites. Attend Exhibit Committee meetings to learn about museum management and governance. 

Since I've been volunteering for a year and a half, I have good knowledge how some things work in the museum. As a volunteer, I mainly work with archives (just working with accession numbers and write descriptions). With this internship, it's research. 

There will always be trail and errors but I wish to avoid as much as possible. If anyone has some advice based on the internship description, I'll greatly appreciate it! 

-Daniel 

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Daniel Williams
Museum Volunteer
Macomb IL
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Hello and happy new year to you all!

In a couple of weeks, I will be back in school for the Spring semester and I will be doing an internship with the museum I've been volunteering for the past year and a half. I have three more semesters to go to receive my Bachelors of Arts in History. This upcoming fall, I will apply for a couple of graduate school programs which will be Museum Studies and History. MS is my first choice.

Usually students would do an internship during their final year but I feel I'm ready to for a head start in my field. In my major program, an internship can be repeatable to 12 hours. I plan to do another another internship for Spring 2018 which my final semester so I could just take 3 classes.

Last month when discussing with the museums director about the internship, she explained that I will be doing some advance research for the spring exhibit and attend some meetings. I'll be doing 6 hours a week and doing other things on the side on my own. The director explained it's pretty much a thing of trust.

I copy and pasted the description about what I'll be doing.

• Explore and learn research method for presenting public history with an emphasis on exhibiting artifact in the context of significant local and national historical events.

• Build on current skills to grow in understanding of the collection management including identifying, cataloguing, handling and storing artifacts.

• Research new acquisitions and catalogue items using the museum’s computer system. (Past Perfect)

• Build a better understanding of how the collection management system can be used for the curate an exhibit. 

• Assist with research for the spring 2017 exhibit. Explore ways to organize information for the exhibit including selection of relevant artifacts from the collection. Write wall panel about selected artifacts and regional sites. Attend Exhibit Committee meetings to learn about museum management and governance. 

Since I've been volunteering for a year and a half, I have good knowledge how some things work in the museum. As a volunteer, I mainly work with archives (just working with accession numbers and write descriptions). With this internship, it's research. 

There will always be trail and errors but I wish to avoid as much as possible. If anyone has some advice based on the internship description, I'll greatly appreciate it! 

-Daniel 

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Daniel Williams
Museum Volunteer
Macomb IL
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