Leonard Lief, Library Lehman College (2 openings) Fall 2011

DESCRIPTION

This is a great opportunity for flexible, creative library school students to gain practical experience in a dynamic, urban academic library. 

The Leonard Lief Library will accept two Interns for the Fall 2011 semester. This is an unpaid internship to fulfill the requirements of a credit course in a Master’s program in Library and Information Science.

Interns will work on projects in the following areas:  Electronic Resources management, Data Entry in Lehman Online Thesis Repository, Online Research Guides (LibGuides).

In addition, Interns will observe Information Literacy classes taught by library faculty, Reference Desk activities, and other library functions.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:  Enrollment in a Master’s program in library or information science where the internship is a credit course.

Preferred:  Completion of courses or experience in website development, electronic resources, database development, reference and research. 

CONTACT

Please send an e-mail expressing interest and availability, with resume attached to:

Before August 1^st:

Madeline Cohen, Education Librarian, Madeline.Cohen@lehman.cuny.edu

After August 1^st:

Stefanie Havelka, Web Services-Electronic Resources Librarian Stefanie.Havelka@lehman.cuny.edu

Internship Opportunities at Scholastic Inc. - Fall 2011

Scholastic Inc/ Publishing company Corporate/ Special Library

557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Located in SoHo neighborhood/ downtown Manhattan

(Broadway between Prince and Spring near Broadway -Lafayette subway station, Spring St Station and Prince St station)

The library serves the writers, editors, and other corporate staff at Scholastic Inc, the children’s book publisher.

Fall 2011 Internship Opportunities at Scholastic Inc/ SoHo

 Requirements: Library School Student must be enrolled in an internship course for school credit and must provide proof of registration in internship class.

Hours: Flexible

Position Description: As an intern at the Scholastic Library/Archives, the library school student will be exposed to the day-to-day workings of a corporate special library and archive.  The intern will learn the basics of maintaining an archival book collection and corporate reference work. The intern will assist the Library staff with various tasks including, but not limited to:

1.  Assist in retrospective book cataloging project as well as in cataloging new and incoming books.

2. Reference work, article searching, using ProQuest, Factiva, Nexis and other sources
3. Archive maintenance
   

If interested, please send resume to library@scholastic.com  Karen Van Rossem 212-343-6188