P/T - Public Library intern - The Patchogue Medford Library (Patchogue, NY)

The Patchogue Medford Library's Young Adult/Audiovisual Services Department is seeking a intern for the fall semester.  Our library serves a diverse population and provides an excellent experience for an energetic and creative library school student. This internship in our busy public library will include involvement in fall programming, interacting with teens, working at the reference desk, learning to do basic cataloging and ordering media items. All applicants MUST be enrolled in a library school program, and must be doing the internship for class credit.  This is an unpaid internship, but an invaluable experience.  Please apply by Friday, July 11th to bschwartz@pmlib.org.  

P/T - Summer Cataloging Position - Families and Work Institute (Manhattan)

Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit seeks an experienced library scientist/grad student to assist in the inventory and cataloging of 25 years of paper and electronic records, research, and publications. 

The work would be done over the summer - 15 hours per week for six to eight weeks - and would ideally be completed by the end of August.

This position is paid ($20/hour).

  

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to Eve Tahmincioglu, Families and Work Institute's Director of Communications at ETahmincioglu@familiesandwork.org 

P/T - Archives Internship - Performa Arts (NYC)

This internship is ideal for an individual interested in a future career in Library Sciences.  You will be heavily involved in cataloging the Performa archives and helping create finding aids and the overall structure of our 10 year archive.  Additionally you will be involved in research for upcoming exhibitions and publications - gaining invaluable experience in research, cataloging, and publication.  

 

Overview of Tasks

-Assist with research and development for upcoming Performa Biennial

-General research on performance, exhibitions, and public programs

-Assist with updating images and documentation in the Performa archives

-Library research

-Organizing, managing, and updating of artist and curatorial files, physical and digital

-Writing of artist research texts and project summaries

-Help to organize material including texts and images to be used on the Performa website

 

General Requirements

-Strong knowledge of contemporary art, new media, and performance internationally

-Familiarity with library and archiving protocols

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills

-Strong organizational skills

-Fluency in the Mac computer platform with MS Office and Adobe

 

Unpaid internship. Minimum of 3 days a week, 10 am to 6 pm. 3-5 days ideal.  Position may include some evening and weekend events.  Full academic credit available.

 

To Apply

Please email a cover letter of interest, resume, and one academic writing samples with the subject line “Archives Internship” to Marc Arthur, marc@performa-arts.org.

 

* No phone calls please.

F/T temporary - Research Internship - Wildlife Conservation Society @ Bronx Zoo (Bronx or home based)

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), located at the Bronx Zoo, is offering an internship (for course credit) or volunteer opportunity for a research project updating information on grant recipients. 

 

“The WCS Research Fellowship Program (RFP) is a small grants program designed to build capacity for the next generation of conservationists by supporting individual field research projects that have a clear application to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wild places.  Collectively, the professionals receiving RFP grants will apply field-tested conservation science to the challenges facing the natural world.” [http://programs.wcs.org/rfp/Home.aspx]

 

WCS would like to update our information on these grant recipients, identifying current contact information, published works and current employment information.  The intern for this project will need to use research skills to search databases such as Web of Science, BioOne, and Google Scholar.  At the same time, knowledge of and experience in using social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and ResearchGate, will be equally important.  Most grant recipients are from developing countries and may be difficult to locate online.  Therefore the intern/volunteer will need to be creative in tracking down information on these individuals.

 

The selected candidate will have good search skills (training on Web of Science, etc., will be provided), will be detail-oriented and a creative thinker.  The final product will be a detailed list of contact information and citations to publications authored by grant recipients.

 

We project this internship will take about 6 weeks, fulltime and work can be done either on site at the Bronx Zoo or at the intern’s home/school.

 

Please send resumes and cover letters to:

 

Kerry Prendergast

Director, WCS Library & Archives

kprendergast@wcs.org