During the summer of 2008, while a student at San Jose State University?s School of Library and Information Science, the author completed a residential data curation internship at the Cornell Biological Field Station. The internship entailed preparing and documenting a long term dataset collected by researchers at the field station. Internships such as this one present learning opportunities not only for students interested in the field of data curation, but for researchers as well. They also provide the opportunity to facilitate collaborations between library staff and researchers.