The New York Academy of Medicine Library is seeking two qualified applicants to assist with assorted library projects. These are temporary, part-time student intern positions in the Library. This is an opportunity to experience hands on library work in all areas of library functions with exposure to special collections and electronic grey literature projects.
About the Library
The New York Academy of Medicine Library houses one of the largest medical collections open to the general public in the United States. Its Malloch Rare Book Room houses a significant portion of the rare book collection, in addition to many of the secondary sources related to the history of medicine and the history of books and printing. These materials are available for use as part of NYAM's commitment to enhancing the health of the public and to promoting scholarship in the history of medicine and public health. The Library also produces the Grey Literature Report, an electronic alerting service of grey literature focused on public and urban health information produced by non-commercial publishers.
Date Available: Immediately
Qualifications: Current enrollment in an ALA-accredited Master’s program in Library and Information Science or undergraduate library science program; Interest in public health and urban health resources as well as special collections; Experience with bibliographic databases, including MEDLINE; ability to lift and carry heavy library materials at any given time.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Assist with a wide variety of library projects ranging from shelving and photocopying to copy cataloging
• Use bibliographic tools to verify citations
• Use scanner and appropriate software to create PDFs and or digital copies, as needed
• Retrieve and re-shelve materials from closed stacks
• Assist with ongoing stacks projects; help with mapping and relocating of materials;
• Assist with tasks related to technical services
• Assist with preparation of packet materials for readers
• Link check and replace broken links within various grey literature electronic projects
Supervision: This position reports to Associate Director who will assign project activities on a weekly basis. Each position is 14 hours, or two days per week, at $11.00/hour; no benefits.
Apply to:
Janie Kaplan, MLn.
Director,
Library and Special Collections
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
www.nyam.org
T (212) 822-7327
F (212) 423-0273
jkaplan@nyam.org
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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 |
Contact SLANY.