Title: Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Internship [3 months, part-time, paid]
The Project: As part of a grant-funded project, the Wildlife Conservation Society Library and the New York Botanical Garden ’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library are digitizing approximately 400 postcards to be displayed on a publicly accessible website.
Duties: Reporting directly to the Librarian/Archivist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Archives Intern will be responsible for scanning the postcards, reviewing the images for quality control, and creating original Dublin Core records for each postcard using CONTENTdm.
Qualifications: Enrollment in (or recent completion of) a Master’s degree program in Library Science, with a focus on Archives, from an ALA-accredited institution. Work experience or knowledge of Dublin Core or other metadata schemes, LCSH or other controlled vocabularies, AACR2, MARC formats, OCLC, and NACO standards for name authorities. Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently. Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Experience with CONTENTdm or other digital library management software highly desirable.
Schedule: Three months (approximately February 2012 through April 2012)—20 hours a week, for a total of 250 hours. Work must be scheduled within 9:00-5:00, Monday-Friday.
Pay: $15.00/hour
To be considered for this position, please submit a cover letter and resume to library@wcs.org. The deadline for applying for this position is December 4, 2011.
Wednesday, November 23, 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 |
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