Molly Klopot has been an activist since she first started organizing unions in Depression-era Detroit. She studied Social Work at Columbia and while working, became involved in the International Peace movement, travelling to East Berlin and later Cuba. She was chair of the NYC chapter of WILPF for many years, founded the New York Raging Grannies in 1990 and was co-founder of the Granny Peace Brigade. In 2013, she received the Clara Lemlich Social Activist Award.
Ms. Klopot is now 96 years old and lives in Coney Island. She has a several hundred volume collection of historic books - non-fiction, novels, etc. - from a left perspective going back at least 75 years.
Most of them are already in the collections of Tamiment and the Wisconsin Historical Society but Ms. Klopot would like to be sure that these particular books find homes where they will continue to be appreciated and used. She would like assistance to put the volumes up on EBay for sale. She would share a percentage of any sales with the intern.
Ms. Klopot has limited vision and is not computer literate. The intern would need to do the posting of each book and then do any follow-up, such as mailing, that is required. The posting would require finding out a fair value to ask for the book.
If you are interested, or have any questions, please send an email to Stephanie Rugoff: sterulo@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 3, 2015
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.