Teen & “In BeTween” Department Internship Opportunity
Cold Spring Harbor Library & Environmental Center
Fall 2016
The Cold Spring Harbor Library is offering this learning opportunity to a Library & Informational
Sciences student who is interested in serving students in grades 5-12.
This unpaid internship may be used for credit in accordance with student’s school policy if
applicable, but is otherwise for experience only.
The ideal candidate will be:
• Working toward a Master’s degree in Library and Informational Science with a focus on
Youth Services
• Flexible, patient, and eager to learn about a career in Young Adult/Tween Services
• A creative and innovative thinker
• Experienced in working with children in 5th grade and up
• Skilled in fine art, graphic design, or wordpress website management a plus
Intern Responsibilities:
• Assisting in the creation and execution of diverse summer programming for students in
grades 5-12.
• Helping to create an environment that attracts and invites teens & tweens to utilize
collections by using bibliographies, book displays, and other visual elements.
• Aiding in various collection development projects in separate Teen and In BeTween sections
of the library including weeding, series maintenance, and genre classification.
• Designing programs and activities for the fall and winter under the supervision of the
Manager of Teen & In BeTween Services.
• Involving teens and tweens in planning and implementing services for their age groups by
working with respective advisory boards.
• Performing public service duties as needed, assisting patrons with reader’s advisory, online
resources, and other library services.
• Performing other tasks as assigned.
Please send resume, cover letter, and three references to:
Caitlin Sempowich
Manager of Teen and In BeTween Services
csempowich@cshlibrary.org
All applications must be received by August 5th, 2016.
The selected intern will have a fall semester start date. Hours are flexible.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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.