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Rohde Library Scholar Internship
We are very pleased to announce that thanks to a generous donation from Jerry and Gisela Rohde, we are establishing the endowed Rohde Library Scholar Internship, supporting paid internships for Cal Poly Humboldt students with Press@Humboldt and Special Collections in perpetuity. Please join us in expressing our gratitude to Jerry and Gisela Rohde for their vision to provide our students with powerful experiences in publishing and Special Collections research.
The Rohde Library Scholar Internship provides powerful learning opportunities to Cal Poly Humboldt students as they gain experience working with publishing, and researching in Special Collections, each semester. Library Scholar Interns benefit from experience with project-based learning, research opportunities, and hands-on work, including: researching and creating digital exhibits from Special Collections, as well as, publishing skills, such as; digitization, text layout, marketing, and publishing with the Press@Humboldt. One of the primary goals of the Press is providing all Humboldt students with the opportunity to publish before they graduate, and the Rohde Library Scholar Internship will be crucial to building support to achieve that vision. As esteemed authors and teachers of local history and trail guides, Jerry and Gisela are empowering students to research history and publish works that create paths for future readers to enjoy.
We sincerely thank Jerry and Gisela Rohde for their outstanding support of the Press@Humboldt and Special Collections. Paid internship experiences are incredible opportunities to apply knowledge learned in the classroom, develop valuable skills and portfolio, and learn more about Humboldt County. Read more from Cal Poly Humboldt's Advancement: A Donation After Their Own Hearts.
About Jerry and Gisela Rohde
Jerry and Gisela Rohde met in San Bernardino County during college and moved to Humboldt County in 1979 for the natural beauty and history of this unique area. Jerry Rohde taught with Eureka City Schools and was a lecturer at the University, and Gisela Rohde worked at Cal Poly Humboldt Library as the Serials Manager. In their retirement, Jerry and Gisela are busy teaching OLLI courses and giving presentations on local history. They are also involved in researching and publishing trail guides and histories of Humboldt County. In fact, we are very excited they are publishing their upcoming book with the Press@Humboldt this year. We are sincerely grateful for their vision, as well as their community engagement, and generous support of paid student internships at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library.
"We are thrilled to able to support the University Library’s very important and relevant work by creating the Rohde Library Scholar Internship. This endowment will support two crucial library activities, its Special Collections and the Press. As authors and teachers who have benefitted from both of these fine programs, we are especially pleased that we can help assure their enhancement and continuity. Cyril Oberlander, the Library Dean, has fashioned an endowment plan that allowed us to quickly and easily convert some of our IRA assets into a fund that will benefit the library in perpetuity. It is heartening to know that the student interns funded by our endowment will be working with two dynamic and highly competent librarians, Kyle Morgan of Scholarly Communications and Carly Marino of Special Collections. We hope others will join us in supporting the Library."
--Jerry and Gisela Rohde
"What I think makes this project important is the making more obscure information that isn’t super accessible to many working within the environmental restoration/management sphere more accessible which can help promote deeper site knowledge and depth of appreciation for differing types of environmental management methods.”
--Bryn Atkins, Archival Practices, Rohde Internship, Spring 2025
"I think being able to see what was important enough to be written about back then let me see how the culture at Cal Poly Humboldt and Arcata has evolved to what it is today.”
--Anna Cisneros, Online Archive for Osprey Magazine, Rohde Internship, 2024/25
"My experience working with Special Collections at Cal Poly Humboldt has been nothing short of life-changing…As a more visual-thinking person, it helped me to visualize the physical aspects of resources, and the human labor involved in keeping them organized and encoding them so they can be searched for and accessed.”
--Jorden Goodspeed, Archival Practices, Rohde Internship, Spring 2025
"The advice I would give to students that are considering this internship or a similar role, is that by better understanding the publication process workflow you will feel more comfortable navigating the process as an author and the world will only benefit from more science being communicated.”
--Gretchen Harrigan, CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change, Rohde Internship, Spring 2025
"Overall, this was a valuable introduction to archival work. I came into the internship open to learning anything and everything, and I left with a strong foundation in behind-the-scenes practices in special collections. I would recommend it to other students interested in libraries, museums, or public history. My advice: be patient, ask questions, and stay organized—each task contributes to making collections accessible and meaningful to others.”
--Autumn Indrebo, Archival Practices, Rohde Internship, Spring 2025
"It was a journey of mutual learning, pushing boundaries, and practical application. Personally, it instilled a tremendous sense of confidence in my ability to tackle complex problems and deliver meaningful results. It has been a truly rewarding experience, and I am eager to carry forward the lessons learned and the momentum gained into my future endeavors.”
--Courtney Rowe, Built Customized AI Tagging Masters Theses, Rohde Internship, Spring 2025
Outstanding Students & Projects
- Atkins, Bryn (Intern), Archival Practices (Spring 2025)
- Cisneros, Anna (Intern), Online Archive for Osprey Magazine (Fall 2024 & Spring 2025)
- Crescibene, Annabel (Intern), Archival Practices (Spring 2025)
- Goodspeed, Jorden (Intern), Archival Practices (Spring 2025)
- Harrigan, Gretchen (Intern), CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change (Spring 2025)
- Hennessy, Katie (Intern), The History of Literary Activism in Humboldt (Spring 2025)
- Indrebo, Autumn (Intern), Archival Practices (Spring 2025)
- Rowe, Courtney (Intern), Built Customized AI Tagging Masters Theses (Spring 2025)
- Wood, Serenity (Intern), Archival Practices (Spring 2025)