SLA-NY Internships listings: American Museum of Natural History Research Library

Friday, February 4, 2011

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

Digital Projects Internship

The American Museum of Natural History Research Library is looking for an intern to assist with digital projects. This is a great opportunity for library school students interested in open source applications, like Dspace and Omeka. The intern would assist the Digital Projects Manager with Dpsace and Omeka administration and other digital projects as they arise. The ideal candidate for this internship will have the following qualifications:

* Enrollment in a MLIS program or recent graduate
* Programming/computer science background
* Programming knowledge of Java web application and JavaScript
* Knowledge of MySql and Php

Flexible schedule, chance to use your creativity and library skills to develop real-world solutions.

Interested candidates should email their cover letter and resume to:

Jen Cwiok, Digital Projects Manager
Email: jcwiok@amnh.org

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

The SLANY contact for student internships is our Student Internships Chair, Kaura Gale. Send Ms. Gale your completed internships forms or contact her if you have questions about the internship program.

SLA Student Internships Chair	Kaura Gale Phillips Library Beth Israel Medical Center kaurag@gmail.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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Friday, February 4, 2011

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

About the SLA-NY Chapter Internship Program

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