the type of museum. I found out about new aspects of the job that I was unaware of, including accompanying loaned works around the world and spending time on researching the collections. These insights confirmed my career ambitions, and I will be aiming to gain a curatorial role in the future.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Kathryn Peak, St Cross College, Second Year DPhil, DPhil English Literature, Remote and In-person Working Work Projects Over several weeks before the internship began, I worked with the two curators of medieval manuscripts to put together a programme of activities and tasks. They were flexible in suggesting activities while allowing me to tailor the programme to my future career aspirations. I want to become an academic librarian, so we planned for me to research two manuscripts and write new catalogue entries for them, to learn the mark-up language so that I could place the new entries in the on-line repository, to write some educational materials based on one of the catalogue entries which could be used by the Bodleian Education Outreach team, and to publicise the internship through blogging and social media. With lots of remote meetings (and a few meetings in person) I had plenty of support from Bodleian staff to complete almost everything on the programme. I did receive training on GitHub and Oxygen, the repository and editing software. Within the four weeks I researched and wrote two catalogue entries (with revisions and rewrites based on feedback from the curators), wrote a worksheet for the education team, tweeted extensively during the four weeks and raised the profile of the internship, and received technical training on the online catalogue. I attended a major virtual conference presented by the Bodleian on the past, present, and future of libraries. I also had many meetings and tours of departments within the Bodleian, and also with curators and librarians in some of the Oxford college libraries, which took up quite a lot of time, but undoubtedly enriched the internship significantly.
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