Digital Commons Summer Internship - 2 days a week - starting mid/late June.
Please note: Any candidates applying for this opportunity must be enrolled in an ALA Accredited MLS Progam and meet the requirements of that institution to participate in this program.
The Intern will work under the supervision of the Serials & Media librarian librarian who is the Curator of the Digital Commons@Molloy. The goal of this project is to digitize the historic nursing collection on behalf of the Barbara Hagan School of Nursing.
The intern will work directly with rare items such as books, photographs, nursing tools, uniforms, and other ephemera. The project will be divided into 3 parts: photographing items or scanning photographs, assigning metadata & descriptions to the images, uploading images plus data to the digital commons.
During the internship, similar projects may arise and there will also be exposure to the various projects and activities that take place during the summer in an academic library. This will include, but is not limited to, book deselection, serials & media management, mentored reference shifts (including chat), and technical services back office activities (ILL/Reserves). We're seeking candidates specializing or interested in archives, rare books, special collections, or academic libraries.
Applications will be accepted until May 25, 2017.
Please visit the library website for more information on our departments and service offerings.
Please e-mail a resume and short cover letter to Tabitha Ochtera or mail to:
Molloy College James E Tobin Library
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Rockville Centre, NY 11571
Equal Opportunity Employer
Women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
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.