The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program (JFP) is a paid, 10-week annual summer internship program that enables undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to gain career experience by working with analog and digital collections and supporting the services of the world's largest library.

The Summer 2026 session of the Junior Fellows Program includes options for both onsite and remote project work. This posting is for the onsite project track. Interns hired under this announcement will be expected to commute to a Library of Congress facility in Washington, DC or Culpeper, VA to conduct work duties.

2026 Onsite Projects:

The onsite project names for 2026 are listed below. For full project descriptions and list of required skills/knowledge for each project, applicants must review the information at this link prior to applying.

# 01 Economic Research on Copyright and Creative Industries (Onsite)

# 02 Enhancing Access to Posters (Onsite)

# 03 Descriptive Cataloging for the Ilmar Mikiver Estonian Collection Materials (Onsite)

# 04 Office of War Information Collection Lacquer Processing (Onsite - Culpeper)

# 05 Universal Music Group Collection Lacquer Processing (Onsite - Culpeper)

# 06 A Nation Changed: Preserving the 9/11 Newspaper Collection (Onsite)

# 07 Sharing the Work of the Conservation Division (Onsite)

# 08 Illuminating Provenance: Capture and Catalogue of Historic Watermarks (Onsite)

# 09 Collections Preservation: Tangible Media and Digital Forensics (Onsite)

# 10 Visions of Modernity: Documenting 20th - Century Chinese Magazines and Journals (Onsite)

# 11 Enhancing Accessibility to an Ephemeral South Asia (Onsite)

# 12 Governing by Edict: Recording Legal Enactments of Pre-Revolutionary France (Onsite)

# 13 Organizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Creation of a Spatial Search Application (Onsite)

# 14 Inventorying Photographs of Political Development Moments in Sub-Saharan Africa (Onsite)

# 15 Mary Wolfskill Internship, Manuscript Reading Room (Onsite)

# 16 Hidden Voices: The Hebraic Pamphlets and Booklets Collection (Onsite)

# 17 Elizabeth Brown Pryor Internship, Manuscript Division Reading Room (Onsite)

# 18 Reconstituting Gao Hongcai’s Collection of Chinese Shandong Gazetteers (Onsite)

# 19 Exploring, Evaluating, and Enhancing Discoverability of Microfilm Resources (Onsite)

# 20 Providing Access to American History (Onsite)

# 21 Yiddish Bibliographic Records Metadata Enhancement Project (Onsite)

# 22 Finding our Place in the Cosmos with the Carl Sagan Book Collection (Onsite)

# 23 Providing Access via Descriptive Cataloging for Yudin Russian Collection (Onsite)

# 24 The Source for Teens: Engaging Teen Audiences in The Source: Creative Research Studio for Kids (Onsite)