National Library Board (NLB) is keen to request two student interns from NUS-FASS for the upcoming Jun 2016 internship intake. NLB is looking at engaging students in any suitable major with keen interest in Archives work. The student interns will be attached to the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) where all public records of the nation are being preserved and housed.
This is a very rare opportunity for students to get first-hand insights to the operations of an Archives and how archival work (in particular AV-related records) is being done using technology in our Sound & Moving Image lab.
In addition, students will also get a chance to explore another areas of archival work (such as oral history, archives and other records) in NAS during his/her stint with us.

Project(s) scope:

1. Carry out technical processing (re-housing, cleaning, processing, repair etc) of specialized AV formats for Audio Visual Archives (AVA).  e.g. 8mm, 16mm & 35mm films, open reel, vinyl & shellac record.
2. Carry out recording of public service broadcast programs from free-to-air Radio & TV channels and undertakes quality checks of recordings
3. QC of outsourced digitized recordings
4. Digital File ingest and QC of preservation and working copies into NAS digital AV preservation system.
5. Produce reference/access copies of AV recordings for access at ARR as well as Archives Online
6. Digitisation of all analogue oral history (OHC) recordings (e.g. Open Reel tapes or Cassette tapes) for archival, preservation and dissemination purposes
7. Digitisation of all analogue AVA recordings for archival, preservation and dissemination purpose.
8. Carry out technical processing and quality assurance of AVA & OHC recordings

• Checking the compliance of the generated content
• Checking for timecodes and metadata
• Checking the baseband quality in audio and video
• Checking for encoding/transcoding errors, if content is compressed

Learning objectives/outcomes for student interns:

Interns will need to learn how to do conservation, digitization , quality checks and preservation of audio-visual recordings for both the analogue (such as Films, Open Reels, Shellacs and Vinyls) and digital formats (such as off-air recording)

Interns will also learn how to manage the digital contents within the Digital AV Preservation System to create viewing and access copies for public request.

Students interested in this internship, please write to:

Chia Ling TAY Associate I | Talent Acquisition & OD People Management & Development | National Library Board
Email: TAY_Chia_Ling@nlb.gov.sg