The Special Collections Library and University Archives is happy to announce that we will be hosting two interns this summer from the university’s internship program. Each intern will provide valuable assistance in moving forward the mission of the University Archives. The first intern is Aigerim Atausha, a senior from Texas A&M University. She’ll be assisting with our book project. This on-going project is weeding the books in our History of Medicine Collection, determining if any of the books in the collection are rare, as well as evaluating the value of the books in the Rare Book Room. All of her work will be done under the guidance of our University Archivist, Kendall Martin.

Our second intern is Tamara Solayappan, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin. She’ll be assisting with a new digitization project focused on the Theses and Dissertations collection. Though this collection has digitized pieces, she’ll take on the role of primary digitizer and will create the metadata for each item as well as edit any scans as necessary. All of her work will be done under the guidance of the Digital Archivist/Manager, Angie Houser.