Please note: the availability of each position will be confirmed at the beginning of every semester.

If you are interested in beginning a conversation about our Internship Program before your arrival in Rome, feel free to contact us: 

Elena Fossà - elena.fossa@trincoll.edu  

Flavia Alfano - flavia.alfano@trincoll.edu 

WEBSITE: https://www.aarome.org/research/library

The Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library contains 167,000 volumes in the fields of classical studies and the history of art and architecture (chiefly Italian, medieval, and Renaissance) with strong collections in ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology, classical literature, ancient topography—including the history of the city of Rome—and related fields such as epigraphy, numismatics, and papyrology.

The library, part of the URBiS Library Network of international specialized libraries in Rome (Unione Romana Biblioteche Internazionali Specializzate), is open stack and provides every modern research amenity in a restored and restorative setting eminently suited to independent study and scholarly research. With working space for approximately ninety people, the library has new reading rooms on the mezzanines and in the basement. The heart of the library is the Arthur Ross Reading Room, with handsome wooden shelving and furniture designed by McKim, Mead & White. Complementing the Arthur Ross Reading Room are the Linda Bettman Reference Room, the Frank Brown Group Study Room, the Buonanno Folio Reading Room and the Barbara Goldsmith Rare Book Room, designed by Michael Graves (1962 Fellow, 1979 Resident) and dedicated in June 1996.

Each year the library adds about 2,500 volumes to its collection and subscribes to approximately 600 current periodicals and scholarly publications in the Academy’s core areas of interest. The main users of the library are Fellows and Residents of the Academy. Reading passes are issued to international scholars, qualified residents of Rome, and visiting artists and scholars. Reading passes are issued to qualified persons who hold a graduate degree and present a letter of introduction, but exceptions are made for the use of publications not available elsewhere.

The library staff consists of the Drue Heinz Librarian, two assistant librarians, the librarian for classical studies, and three library assistants.

Interns at The American Academy in Rome Library should take care of the following tasks:

•  Weeding titles from the collection that our selectors have identified as duplicates or beyond the scope of our areas of coverage. This includes removing physical volumes from the collections and shifting the remaining materials to better occupy the space on the shelves.

• Searching for digital copies of our print collections in JSTOR, the HathiTrust, Persée, Gallica, Revues.org, DigitZeitschriften, the Getty Research Portal, the KVK, Architectura (Tours), etc. in order to enhance access and possibly weed  physical volumes for which we can find reliable online access.

• Scanning original archival materials pertaining to the history of the Academy and preparing these for ingest in our Digital Humanities Center at https://dhc.aarome.org/.

• Completing inventory and searching for missing volumes the collections, as well as shifting the collections to better distribute our physical holdings across available shelving space.

• Translating the titles of our original photographs from the Italian to English and applying Library of Congress Subject Headings based upon descriptions in Italian. This presupposes being a native or near-native English speaker with good knowledge of Italian.  

• Translating select pages and finding aids or other guides and resources  on our website from English to Italian.  

• Processing and describing our unique archival collections pertaining to the history of the Academy. The project includes rehousing handwritten letters, maps and drawings and placing these in acid-free containers or appropriate mylar sleeves for their physical preservation and describing the objects, one at a time, in our archives management application, ArchivesSpace, or in an Excel spreadsheet, following the guidance of our archivists.

• Other projects may occasionally arise. Students would focus on one or maximum two projects at a time, depending upon the availability and urgency of such projects. 

Requirements:  

• Intermediate level of Italian;

• Proactive attitude and punctuality;

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and good computer skills;

• Interest for out institution's initiatives and activities;

• Self-motivation and good time management.

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME -> Via Angelo Masina, 5, 00153 Roma RM