Temporary position (1 month) – Cataloger – Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Office
The Wildlife Conservation Society is seeking a motivated MLS student or recent graduate to catalog and index our national office Library in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
This one month position will require the candidate to sort and catalog the collection of books, periodicals and grey literature used by present and former field staff of WCS, as well as outside conservation researchers. The catalog system is a “home-grown” database system of WCS, but correct bibliographic entry and subject analysis are essential to the project. The candidate will work with the Cambodian staff as well as the Library Director in New York to best process this collection, so as to serve as a benchmark for future information expansion within WCS.
WCS will provide travel to Phnom Penh and lodging, as well as a basic per diem for food and sundries.
Ideally we are looking for someone to complete this during the Summer of 2009, but we will look at later dates, depending on applicants.
Qualifications:
Basic knowledge of descriptive cataloging, subject analysis and metadata
Familiarity with relational databases
Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite
If interested, please send resume to Dan Cherubin at dcherubin@wcs.org
Friday, June 5, 2009
About the SLA-NY Chapter Internship Program
Our internship program is sponsored and supported by our chapter members. It is designed to be as flexible as possible for both students and sponsors. For this reason we do not follow an academic calendar. We do ask that you become a student SLA member and commit at least 1 full business day per week to the internship. The more days per week you commit to the internship; the larger the pool of internship opportunities. Generally, host sites require that you be a currently matriculating graduate library school student.
The types of internships that our program offers vary greatly. We encourage you to express the types of internships you wish to explore. Below are just a few examples of our host sites:
- finance
- advertising
- market research
- law
- news / journalism
- publishing
- public relations
- nonprofit
Internship descriptions range from general reference, online research, to Intranet content indexing/management. In keeping with our flexibility directive, we believe that the student and the sponsor should clearly understand that along with some clerical-type duties, majority of the responsibilities of an intern is to learn new skill sets and add to their experience.
We ask that the sponsor supervises the intern with an ALA-accredited degreed librarian to ensure that the experience will be worthwhile and resume-building for the intern and provides the sponsor with professional quality work.
Most of our internships are located in Manhattan, but there have been exceptions. Generally our MLS students attend the following programs:
- Palmer SLIS, Long Island University - CW Post and Manhattan campuses
- Pratt Institute
- Queens College
- Rutgers University
- St. John's University
- University of Southern Connecticut.
Not a SLANY student member? SLA membership is recommended, but not required. Let us know how we can help you.
Contact Information
SLA Student Internships Chair | Heidi Weinkam Crowe sla_ny@yahoo.com |
LLAGNY Internships Co-Chair | Kit Hartnett, co-chair Proskauer Rose LLP 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036 (212) 969-5010 (212) 969-2931 (fax) khartnett@proskauer.com |
| LLAGNY Internships Co-Chair | Sonal Pandya, co-chair Linklaters LLP 1345 Ave of the Americas 18th Fl New York, NY 10105 (212) 830-9515 (212) 424-9100 (fax) sonal.pandya@linklaters.com |
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