France-Stanford Center - Undergraduate Internship Forney Library
Sponsored by
Stanford Global Studies
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Funding Type:
Stipend
Open To:
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Summer
Applications closed
Applications closed on February 5, 2020
Approximate Offer Date:
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Inside the Hotel de Sens, a royal residence dating back to the Middles Ages, the Forney Library specializes in arts and craftsmanship. The library has 23,000 volumes, as well as 50,000 exhibition catalogues, 4,000 newspaper titles and rich iconographic collections. The collections are dedicated to the decorative arts, the art and craft professions and their techniques, the fine arts and graphic arts, without forgetting fashion, advertising and design. Temporary exhibitions highlighting the collection are scheduled throughout the year.
Eligibility and Requirements:
This internship is open to undergraduate students with background and interests in the following fields: art history, decorative and graphic arts, French history and culture. The library’s collections include posters, postcards, wallpaper, fabrics and commercial catalogues; the student-intern should be ready to practice archival, curatorial and/or library-science skills in working with such materials. Duties may also include welcoming visitors and readers to the library and presenting the history of the building and library in both English and French; proficiency in French is therefore required.