Role Title: Marketing and Communications Intern
Organisation: The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (DCWA)
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: Crawley & Perth City
The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (DCWA) is a digitisation facility providing
services at archival level to collecting institutions in Western Australia. The Western
Australian Universities (Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, Notre
Dame University and the University of Western Australia), the State Library of Western
Australia and the Western Australian Museum are the main partners of the Centre, and the
Centre ofers fee-based services to smaller local government and community organisations.
The Centre is capable of digitising collections in a wide range of paper-based and
photographic as well as audio and audio-visual formats, opening up opportunities for
researchers and interested members of the public to access, analyse and write about
collections in WA that are of high cultural signifcance at local, national and international
levels.
The DCWA’s facility is split across two locations. Paper-based, photographic and audiovisual materials are digitised at the main laboratory in Barry J Marshall Library on UWA Crawley campus, while audio collections are digitised at the sound studios of the State Library of Western Australia.
As the appointee you will, under supervision, develop and implement the DCWA’s
communication plan, enhance the digital presence of the Centre, and provide event support as required.
The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (DCWA) is an important piece of infrastructure that aims to digitise, to global archival standards, the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences collections held in Western Australia. DCWA offers a digitisation service for paper-based, photographic, audio and audio-visual materials to collecting institutions in Western Australia.